There is a race horse called Lotus Elan
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Different size horse shoes front and rear
Different size horse shoes front and rear
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pharriso wrote:elanfan1 wrote:Won't be very fast 1hp
actually not!! It defies logic but a horse is capable of working at a maximum of about 15 horsepower....
I think 1 horsepower is what a horse can keep up indefinitely ? (apart from eating (re-fuelling))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower
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billwill wrote:pharriso wrote:elanfan1 wrote:Won't be very fast 1hp
actually not!! It defies logic but a horse is capable of working at a maximum of about 15 horsepower....
I think 1 horsepower is what a horse can keep up indefinitely ? (apart from eating (re-fuelling))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower
Wow, some days you don't learn anything:
"In 1993, R. D. Stevenson and R. J. Wassersug published correspondence in Nature summarizing measurements and calculations of peak and sustained work rates of a horse.[13] Citing measurements made at the 1926 Iowa State Fair, they reported that the peak power over a few seconds has been measured to be as high as 14.9 hp (11.1 kW)[14] and also observed that for sustained activity, a work rate of about 1 hp (0.7457 kW) per horse is consistent with agricultural advice from both the 19th and 20th centuries and also consistent with a work rate of about 4 times the basal rate expended by other vertebrates for sustained activity.[13]"
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