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Here is an article from EQUUS magazine August 2006

Comparatively Speaking:

Although there's no simple equation for calculating how old your horse is in human years, it's possible to come up with a ballpark figure:

*First horse year = 12 human years

*Second horse year = 7 human years

*Next three horse years = 4 years each

*Subsequent horse years = 2 1/2 years each.

This puts a 2-year-old colt in his late teens, a 5-year-old at full maturity and a 15-year-old at late middle age.

What accounts for the difference in aging? Largely genetics and lifestyle. Horses mature much more quickly than their owners, so their formative years add up exponentially. Horses experience a few days of infancy, a few months of childhood and a year or more as teens.

They are fully mature by 4 or 5 years of age, when they enter a lengthy active adulthood. Then they experience a short decline and brief terminal illness.

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