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HORSES WERE FIRST domesticated 6,000 years ago on the western part of the Eurasian Steppe. This is a harsh, arid, windswept environment with a rough and varied terrain where scrubland and grasses were fibrous and largely low in energy.

Studies of modern wild horses have shown that they will often travel up to 20 miles in a day, foraging for food and water. Their bodies are adapted for this slow and steady, almost continuous exercise, where they need to store fat in anticipation of hard times. They are capable of short, high-intensity bursts of exercise in order to flee danger or during herd interactions. This evolution has