i heard about this eledged species called the Long Horse
there seems to be a debate on whether they really existed or not
i've found pictures and stuff
theres even a skeleton in a museum
are they real??
can any one tell me more?

I think these are in the same category as the jackalope and the fiji mermaid. Created by man to sell post cards and souvenirs.

Man, what I wouldn't give for a Fiji Mermaid souvenir, and the word Jackalope just sounds dirty, IMO....might make a nice postcard, though.

"I jacked a jackalope in Tumbleweed"?



Anyway, want to supply us with some of those pics you found so we know what you're talking about? I suspect it is exactly as Snuffy put it but I would like to be able to ridicule you based on pictures instead of speculation.

Is that the sort of mermaid where they'd glue a cats skull to a fish and say it's a mermaid?

(I heard this refference on Doctor Who, not sure if it's true or not)

^More often it was monkeys.

Remember that episode of the X files where they're chasing that little conjoined twin dude? and they think it's a Fiji mermaid?



I've never heard of the "long horse" though.

what is long horse ?? do you have any pic ?

I have never heard of any stories about a long horse, i honestly thought it was just the name of a salloon!

Never heard of it. Got any links to share?

Here are a couple of pictures I quickly found.




If it did exist it seems it'd have a lot of strain on its back with carrying it's bodyweight and that.

thats physically impossible lol, its legs would collapse underneath all that wait , the sadles alone would do it themselves, lol. but it is funny

Wow

Please post them so we have an idea what you are talking about.

Nope, never heard of "Long Horse." "Long Pig," now....

I stumbled across this forum while looking for something else but the long horse post caught my eye.

It is a typical example of how exageration and fraud, and more latterly western urban ignorance can actually mask something even more amazing. In this case , something known to science and the west but almost completely unknown by the lay person; especially in the urban West. Something utterly incredible. There is no question as to their existence; indeed there are studs and associations even in Western Europe. One once won the gold medal for Russia in the Olympic games for dressage in the early sixties.

The Long Horse was first reported by Crusaders in the west, thought the Romans and other cultures had different names for them. The ancient chinese called the enemies that rode them the Golden Hordes: Mongols. For the unusual thing about the so called "long horse" is that sometimes they are metallic in colour; often gold.

Now the thing to remember here is that in popular western culture a horse is a horse. But to a horse culture, like the Crusaders or the Saracens, used to heavy horses or light round Arabians this horse looked incredibly long. The horse breed is known as the Ak al teke, or Akhal Teke.
So to see one like this ridden by an Uzbek tribesman to a traveller along the spice road must have been incredible. But what would be incredible to many of you now, I am certain, is not its length. Those of you used to horses are also used to seeing thoroughbreds. Racehorses. Bred in the 17th century, thoroughbreds are much longer than the Arabian and are less rounded, so it looked long and sleek when first bred. So the length of his horse will not amaze you nowadays...though to a trained horseman's eye it is sometimes still a surprise.
No, what is incredible now, is that the ancient Chinese legends of mongol horsemen on golden horses sweting blood was true.

Be prepared to be amazed unhappy Princess. And marvel not at the imaginary but the real.
This photo has not been doctored. It is real. I hope this makes you a Happy Princess. Behold The Ak al Teke:
http://www.oragedebelmont.fr/images/akhal-teke1.jpg
When I first saw one at a Racing Stables in the Czech republic, I knew of it. But seeing one in real life brought tears of joy to my eyes. It was as I could only have imagined before. Golden in the sun; like metal. Some British people with me didn't know what it was. And these were horse people.
"What have they done to that poor horse?" one said " paint spraying it gold like that!"
But it hadn't been sprayed. It was indeed a legendary Golden Ak Al teke.

And the Ukraninan/Czech boy, Joseph, who had bought it for the owner, sadly now killed in a car crash at age 26, proceded to tell me stories of the animals for hours. They do race in Russia and sometimes the Czech republic at beautiful racecourses such as Pardubice. The traditional way of keeping them is even more amazing. The tribesmen of the 'Stans , with cereal so short in desert lands, supplemented their horses feed with goat blood. A bled goat could make a stew for humans and feed a horse without killing it. So they had a high protein diet. He believed this explained why a horse in battle would get a lather of pinky foam on its neck; rather like too much Guinness making you have a nosebleed. This explained the chinese legend of the golden horses foaming and sweating blood on their necks. The horses are also kept at night with SEVEN rugs according to tribal tradition, despite some tribes even keeping them in the living quarters of their tents and homes; so revered are they.

Here is a nice website about them:
http://www.akhalteke.org/

They were hidden by the tribes people for centuries ( the Turanian is also similar http://www.turanianhorse.org/misc.html ); so they were until the last few hundred years nothing more than the legendary "long horse" or "golden horse".

Yet now while many people know about them, others are completely ignorant of one of the most amazing animals visually in the world. An animal for so long that was just an amazing legend. But I think for an Unhappy Princess, to find a Golden Horse, the stuff of fairy tales, is real, and amazing, is I hope is a nice gift.

Okay. Saying the long horse exist and then giving that other horse as proof, though taller and longer than normal to most people, it is not abnormally long or strange looking. It is like saying dragons exist and then pointing someone to a komodo dragon website.

I think what is being referred to in this thread is more akin to the pictures of extra long horses in the previous posts. Welcome to the forums.

that's a fine looking horse !

but is not long

it almost looks as if someone stretched the pic to were u see a repeat of the image then just kepted it
look at the cloud in the top it looks like it has a flat edge

I think what Panther is trying to say is that the legend of the long horse is just a misinterpretation of a different breed of horse by a culture that had previously never seen it before. Makes sense to me. It's just like with dogs; different breeds have different body shapes. Consider a Chinese man, who being used to shar peis and pugs, comes to England and sees the Queen's corgis. It would be along the same lines.

The second pic is a total fake.

It's obviously photoshopped. The saddles are all the exact same, except a bit of the shadow, which can be edited easily.

Wentwood Panther is correct. Such as Arab sailors report of Baboons being "little old men who jumped on your back and rode you" or Lindstrom's "armoured tailed" portrayal of a beaver. Writers embellished to keep their readers engrossed.
Panther, I breed Polish (Witaz) and Crabbit Arabs and was fasinated that the Akel teke's conformation lends itself to soft sand were a "normal" horse would bow a tendon and injure itself.

Lapiche

That's an amazing-looking horse with that golden shimmer over its coat. And physically it somehow looks different from other horses, although I'm not trained enough an eye to see in which way. Thanks for clearing this up.

if you refer to pic of statue and ultra long horse, they all fake i believe (look at the "thing" in the statue).
long horse in here is the golden horse. not the long body horse

Haha! Your right. That is just pathetic.