If you were a horse, you would run like the wind.
You would have a long tail and mane.
You would be powerful and strong.
Oh, how wonderful to be a horse!
Horses are beautiful animals with strong muscles. A horse can easily carry a person on its back.
A horse's powerful legs help the animal run far and jump high. Some horses can run more than 50 miles per hour!
Horses are fast, too. They are one of the fastest animals in the world. People like to watch horse races and guess which horse will run the fastest.
Horses come in many colors. They can be black, white, brown, gray, red, yellow, and more. Sometimes they are two or three colors at once.
A white spot at a horse's eye level or above is called a star. Any white mark below its eyes but above its nostrils is called a stripe.
Did you know that a zebra is a type of horse?
Some horses have spots. Some horses have stripes. Some have both, and some have none.