If your racing and betting on each others horses its called Racing for Pinks!
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The gaits used by harness racing horses is pacer and trotter
A group of horses is usually called a herd. A herd. Or if you are driving or racing chuckwagons, a team. It could also a Stud of Wild Horses
In Thoroughbred racing the rider is called a Jockey and in standardbred racing they are called drivers. There is also the horse trainers, owners, and grooms.
Most horses that are used for racing are ridden by professional riders called jockeys. Usually the people that own or train the horse do not ride it in the races.
If you mean the ones that horses commonly wear when racing then they are also called blinders.
Yes, horses are famous for racing. Especially throughbreds, who are the main breed of racing horse.
The horses are called from the paddock to the starting gate
thorough bred horses that are about 2 years old do racing
This comes from horse racing. They used to not have racing gates, and the horses would of course, as they do now, get very excited. So the people there would say to the track helpers, "hold your horses" because the horses were excited and they didn't want them to get away.
Horse racing came before horse shows.