Black horses

["Sarah Roxanne Zawacki" <zawackis@pilot.msu.edu>]

    I'm not sure if this applies or not, but I'm going to tell it anyway.
In the UAE, where people where those robes (I think there's an official
name, but I don't know what it is, hope I don't offend anyone) as daily
dress, many of them wear black ones.  The idea is that while the black
cloth is about five degrees warmer in sun than the white, wearing a loose
black robe can feel cooler.  The extra heat from the robe heats the air
against the wearer's skin, and the expanded air moves up, through the neck,
and cooler air is drawn through the bottom.  The result is circulating
air and the wearer feels cooler and dryer.  Bizarre.
    I don't think this can apply to black horses, though, because they are
not tube-shaped, as a robe can be, and thus do not funnel air in any
particular direction.  I was thinking that maybe a black horse would have
an advantage in humidity, when they were able to evaporate sweat better.
However, that's a silly idea because the sunlight would be evaporating the
sweat, rather than horse's heat evaporating it (which is, I think, the
entire point of sweating).


                                Sarah
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