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The different parts of a horse have different names, most of them specific to the horse.
Like humans, horses are built differently and are good at different things.
KEY FEATURES
A horse's head is in proportion to the rest of its body with a slender, arched neck set nicely into the powerful sloped shoulders. The body of a horse should be lean as accordance to it's breed. It should be well-sprung ribs for optimum lung capacity, croup lower than the withers, so the weight can be transferred to his hind end and a broad and deep chest.
The top line - from the neck over the back to the hindquarter muscles which most of the weight of it's body is slung between the "pillars" of the front and back legs.
the legs are crucial to a horse's wellbeing. Any injury to a leg can be life-threatening to a horse as there are no muscles below the knees and hocks except a comples series of tendons and ligaments. A horse can locks the joints in place so that it can sleep while standing.
A horse's left side is called the near side, and it right is known as the off side.
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