
Det varnas för att hästarna kan sparka eller bita om man går för nära.
Lite pottokpsykologi: http://www.pottoka.info/files/galeria/Lucy.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottok
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrun


Markus har frågan!
Ordet uttalas val'ack eller valack'. Det är ett översättningslån av tyska Wallach och betyder i grunden ”häst från Valakiet” (som nu utgör den södra delen av Rumänien). En invånare i Valakiet heter på tyska Wallache, på svenska valak. På samma sätt används på franska hongri det vill säga ”ungrare” och i äldre tyska ordet reuss, motsv. ”ryss” (jfr russ, häst på gotländska) för att beteckna kastrerade hingstar. Bruket att kastrera hästar var vanligt i Östeuropa och hade gamla anor. Redan på 400-talet användes på latin uttrycket equus hunnicus det vill säga ”hunnisk häst”.
Ryskans "мерин" är "borrowed from Mongolic; compare Kalmyk мөрн (mörn, “horse”)".Le terme « hongre », signifiant à l'origine « hongrois », existe au moins depuis les années 1100, dérive du latin d'Allemagne, et serait d'origine turque1. Ce nom aurait été attribué aux chevaux castrés par référence à l'usage hongrois de châtrer les chevaux de monte. Le nom est parfois employé en tant que verbe, « hongrer » faisant référence à la procédure de castration en elle-même, pratiquée par le « hongreur ». En anglais, le mot désignant le hongre, « gelding », provient du vieux norrois geldr (« stérile »),
Vi fortsätter med temat.Ein vallak er ein hingst (hannhest) som har blitt kastrert. Hingstane blir kastrert for å få ein rolegare hest, ein som er enklare å handtere. Ofte kan dette også bidra til at hesten kan stå saman med andre, vere rolegare på bana, konsentrere seg meir på treninga o.l. Ein vallak blir også kalla jelk.
RUNE, sbst.1, l. RONE, sbst.1, m.
Ordformer
(rone c. 1635—1637. rwne 1538, 1559)
Etymologi
[av mlt. rūne (lt. run), motsv. mnl. ruun, ruyn, rune (holl. ruin), ä. t. o. t. dial. raun(e); av ovisst urspr.; jfr äv. ä. d. runhest, valack, rundyr, kastrerad bock, run, adj., kastrerad. — Jfr RUNA, v.]
(†) kastrerad häst, valack. VarRerV 51 (1538). Schroderus Lex. 56 (1637).
RUNA, v. -ade. vbalsbst. -ING (Linc. (1640; under castratio)).
Etymologi
[sannol. av lt. runen, kastrera (hingst), valacka; jfr holl. ruinen; sammanhörande med (möjl. avledn. av) RUNE, sbst.1]
(†) med avs. på hingst: kastrera, valacka; äv. allmännare, med avs. på andra husdjur: kastrera, snöpa. G1R 26: 90 (1556). (I april) Snöpes Kalfwar och Grijsar. Runes Hästar och Fohlar. Brahe Oec. 106 (1581; uppl. 1920). Runade och snöpte Hestar. Petreius Beskr. 4: 6 (1615). Vthi Nedanet .. (skall man) runa sina Kalfwar, Grijsar, vnga Bagger och Fööl. IErici Colerus 1: 14 (c. 1645). Broman Glys. 3: 149 (c. 1730).
https://www.britannica.com/animal/PliohippusPliohippus, extinct genus of horses that inhabited North America during the Pliocene Epoch (5.3–2.6 million years ago). Pliohippus, the earliest one-toed horse, evolved from Merychippus, a three-toed horse of the preceding Miocene Epoch (23–5.3 million years ago). The teeth of Pliohippus are taller and more complexly folded than those of earlier horses; these features indicate a greater dependence on grazing than browsing for food. Because of its diet and its specializations for running, it is likely that Pliohippus lived on open plains.
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fossi ... liohippus/Did Pliohippus live during the Pliocene?
(Or, how do you manage to miss an entire epoch?)
As incredible as it may sound, recent research shows that Pliohippus and the Pliocene have shrunk in duration so that they completely missed each other!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PliohippusPliohippus (Greek πλείων (pleion, "more") and ἵππος (ippos, "horse")) is an extinct genus of Equidae, the "horse family". Pliohippus arose in the middle Miocene, around 15 million years ago. The long and slim limbs of Pliohippus reveal a quick-footed steppe animal. While some specimens have one toe per leg, others have three (the main toe and two non-functional side toes).
Until recently, because of its many anatomical similarities, Pliohippus was believed to be the ancestor of the present-day horse and its relatives in Equus. Although Pliohippus clearly is an equid and thus related to Equus, its skull had deep facial fossae, a feature not found in any member of Equus. Additionally, its teeth were strongly curved, unlike the very straight teeth of modern horses. Consequently, it is unlikely to be the ancestor of the modern horse; instead, it is likely to be the ancestor of Astrohippus Pliohippus stood approximately 1.25 metres, similar to the modern horse. Also like the modern horse, Pliohippus was a grazer that fed on steppe grasses of the North American plains it inhabited.
Fossils of Pliohippus have been found at many late Miocene localities in Colorado, the Great Plains (Nebraska, including Ashfall Fossil Beds and the Dakotas) and also Canada. Pliohippus has been found beside Neohipparion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_scottiEquus scotti (translated from Latin as Scott's horse, named after vertebrate paleontologist William Berryman Scott) is an extinct species of Equus, the genus that includes the horse.
E. scotti was native to North America and likely evolved from earlier, more zebra-like North American equids early in the Pleistocene epoch. The species may have crossed from North America to Eurasia over the Bering land bridge during the Pleistocene. The species died out at the end of the last ice age in the large-scale Pleistocene extinction of megafauna.
It was among the last of the native horse species in the Americas until the reintroduction of the horse approximately 10,000 years later, when conquistadors brought modern horses to North and South America around the 16th century.