This concerted effort to breed horses for rideability ... special place of horses in human societies." The findings of this study have been published in Nature and can be accessed here.

Photographs selected by Donny Bajohr Text by Tracy Scott Forson Mighty and majestic with wonderful manes, horses have been part of human life for ... are an old and pure breed.

Horse breeders pay stud fees, which can run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, for the privilege of mating their female horses with particularly fast or well-bred male racehorses.