In 2004, Congress designated December 13 as National Horse Day. This is the day to remember the economic and cultural significance of horses in the United States.
It is thought that horses were first domesticated around 5000 BCE somewhere in the area of modern Northern Kazakhstan and Southwestern Russia. It is also likely that domestication of horses was what allowed the Indo-European peoples to spread throughout Europe so quickly around the same time. It is impossible to overestimate the significance of horses throurhout these thousands of years, until about 150 years ago when machines began gradually replacing them as the primary means of transportation.
But even today horses are extremely important. As of 2020, there are about 9.2 million horses in the US generating about 10 billion dollars of revenue.
This cache was placed on National Horse Day.