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Phylum Chordata is the classification of horses in the Animal Kingdome. This is form the English term chordates, meaning having a vertebral column and Class Mamalia, the characteristic of having the ability to nourish an offspring through the secretion of milk by the mammary glands.

It is thought that horses have originated from small dog-like animals some 60 million years ago, undergone through some series of extinction but reappeared about 7,000 years ago in the grassland steppes of Ukraine and Central Asia. However, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, in his voyage in 1494, transported some of the species of horses from Spain to his conquered lands, along with his spices and silks. Since then, the wild and untamed Przewalski horse species found their way into various stables as science paved the way for their breeding and domestication.

These amazing animals have various roles in the human existence. We have seen how horses were involved in fighting for causes as filmmakers try to transport us back into the different war time history since Civil War time to World War II. In the movie Braveheart, Mel Gibson as William Wallace was seen fighting with the English cavaliers troops of King Edward I during the First War of Scottish Independence. In World War II, over six million horses were used by the German and Soviet Union military personnel, mounted to transport artilleries and food to less friendlier terrains. For reel or for real, horses took part in several warfare more than history can ever record.

Horse-drawn carriages, before the invention of automobiles, were used to provide a form of transportation. From the biblical chariot of Egypt to the wheeled coaches of the eighteenth century, horses remain the king of the roads. During the visit of George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Canada in 1939 were seated in a landau with a rider and footmen. Today, landaus in Vienna called Fiacres and Calesa in the Philippines, use to carry tourists to roam around the old city.

Horses remain the favorite subject of painters, sculptors and photographers. An art exhibit is incomplete without framed paintings or captured still images of horses in groups or solitary lazily grazing over grasslands or frolicking on shallow riverbanks. The movie Black Beauty, as we witnessed how a black horse was separated from its kind master and wonderful home, passed to several indifferent and abusive owners before finally being reunited to his love made us cry.

Horses have grabbed not only our interest but also our love. Horse lovers such as breeders and equestrians spend millions of dollars over their horses and horses needs in terms of food, health, accessories and recreations. To date, many businesses have capitalized in the horse industry because of the huge financial profit that it offers such that specialty stores selling anything related to horses have dramatically increased over the years.