The climate doesn’t always co-operate with the calendar about the first day of spring, however whatever the weather, September 1 is the official birthday of all race horses.
Calving starts down here in early August so that’s well through. Lambing starts a couple of weeks later and those downland farms which still have sheep now also have lambs.
[Update: A comment from Steve below tells me I’m a month late – August 1st is the horses’ birthday in the southern hempisphere.]
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Interestingly folks who follow the lunar calendar only ‘age’ at new year.
Horses’ birthdays in the southern hemisphere are all on 1st August.
It is against the Rules of Racing to have a stallion serve a mare in the months of July and August. So today is the stallions’ day.
This rule was brought in because in Australia, up to several years ago 2 horses were born on 30th and 31st July, but hundreds were born on 1st August. It was a rort that had to be got past.
Thanks for pulling me up and the explanation Steve, I’ve updated the post with the correction.
I’m sorry, I thought it was January 1st? Unless, is that with horses in general?