In Iceland, horses are on an equal footing with sheep. Driving around the island along Highway 1, whether it is rainy or snowy, Icelandic horses can always be seen on the side of the road. No wonder the Vikings landed in Iceland with fat sheep, but also hard-working Icelandic horses, to the bitter cold, without the quality of perseverance can not survive.
Icelandic horse
As the star animal of Iceland, compared to the common horse, the Icelandic horse looks a bit cartoonish, with a height of one meter and five meters, a small head, and a rock star-like hairstyle. The peculiarity of the Icelandic horse is its pure blood, there were no horses here before, and there have only been Icelandic horses since then. Iceland has a legal rule since ancient times that it is not allowed to import other horse breeds, and at the same time, an Icelandic horse is not allowed to return after leaving Iceland. In other words, the horses seen in Iceland have retained their thousand-year-old ancestry.
Reykjavik's open-air museum exhibit area has a meadow that is used to raise horses in the summer. There I saw a newborn pony walking and trembling, following the mother horse around. Seeing me, the pony inquired curiously, confirmed that I was a harmless guy, and then relaxed his heart and began to play with me. While taking pictures, without paying attention, the pony bit my ass. This is not the most interesting, there is a black horse next to it, presumably the father of the horse, full of food rolling in the mud, looking for a place to get the sun, squinting to sleep. Suddenly Papa Ma farted, and the air current blew the tail up. The first time I saw a farting horse, I smirked at the side.
Icelandic horses are naturally friendly, and even so, each horse has its own unique personality. There was an interesting Icelandic horse on an Icelandic farm, who was born not to be ridden and had a rebellious spirit. Another time to watch the news, that time Guotai Min'an, there was really no news to broadcast, so the reporter went to a farm to introduce a strange horse with a story. The horse grew up with the hostess, and at retirement age he still likes to train with the hostess and occasionally participate in horse racing. But the strange thing is that from the first meeting, this horse has begun to hate the hostess's boyfriend for a long time. As long as you see the hostess's boyfriend, always ass to him. At the end of this news, the heroine was photographed riding on a strange horse, and the next picture was the boyfriend entering the stable, the horse recognized him, immediately turned his head to face the wall, and looked back from time to time, his eyes were full of disgust and impatience.