It's called a muzzle.
Horses have what we call long noses.
long like my nose
it varies so much, there could never be one number. every single horse is different
Nose uses a long 'o'. It sounds the same as words like:bows (ribbon bows)chosecrowsgrowshosethrows
Elephant.
The horse of Santiago was gray because he had a dark colored nose. To be an official white horse...the horse has to have a pink nose.
It is a long O due to the silent E. It rhymes with pose and flows.
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Same as us - by breathing in air, which is delivered to the lungs to be exchanged with carbon dioxide, which the horses breathe out.
I suspect that either horse racing or some other track event where a photo at the finish would be used to determine the winner.
"Win by a nose" is a horse racing term -- and means that the lead horse was just a little bit ahead of the second place horse. Therefore the horse that has his nose to the line first wins.
It has a long O sound, as in rows, to rhyme with hose and nose. The E is silent.
From horse racing, where they judge the winner of the race by which horse's nose crosses the line first.