00:00ever lifted a saddle pad and thought why does the horse look like it just took a bubble bath
00:05the truth is the horse didn't bathe at all those white foamy patches you see under the saddle
00:10aren't soap they're actually it's sweat horses have extremely active sweat glands and when
00:16they exercise they release a lot of sweat to cool their bodies down because horse sweat contains
00:22proteins it turns into white foam when it mixes with air or gets rubbed by the saddle that's why
00:27sometimes you can even draw little shapes in it after a ride caretakers usually scrape off the
00:32sweat with a sweat scraper and then wash the horse properly something people don't always notice
00:38is how soft a horse's nose and mouth really are and yes some horses even grow tiny mustaches
00:44these mustaches are actually whiskers and each horse's whiskers look a little different depending
00:49on the breed they work just like a cat's whiskers since a horse's eyes sit on the sides of its
00:55head
00:55it has a blind spot right in front of its face and right below it so when a horse eats
01:00it uses
01:01those whiskers to feel around and find the food accurately
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