Do you ever ride horses where you live?
No, but I did when I was a kid, the horse was first domesticated around 4000BC
Really? Where were they first domesticated?
How and when horses were domesticated is highly disputed, so I dont think it is known for sure
I rode a horse once in West Virgina. I liked it a lot.
There are still feral horses, but they are not truly wild, they just have never been domesticated
I  have never seen a feral horse. They are difficult to tame.
there is also an endangered horse called a Przewalski, it is a subspecies and the only true wild horse left
Wild horses must becoming extinct because of humans.
enables them to make use of speed to escape predators and they have a well-developed sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down, with younger horses tending to sleep significantly more than adults. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months, and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth
. With rare exceptions, most hybrids are sterile and cannot reproduce.
Domestication.
Domestication of the horse most likely took place in central Asia prior to 3500 BC. Two major sources of information are used to determine where and when the horse was first domesticated and how the domesticated horse spread around the world. The first source is based on palaeological and archaeological discoveries; the second source is a comparison of DNA obtained from modern horses to that from bones and teeth of ancient horse remains.
The earliest archaeological evidence