This site has some good drawings to illustrate the process of determining age by looking at a horse's teeth:
http://www.greenacres-stud.com/ageingthe...
If you're buying a registered horse, then the papers will give the horse's age.
If the horse is a Thoroughbred which has raced, and has a lip tattoo, the first character in the tattoo gives the year of birth, as follows:
http://www.equinerescue.info/tattoos.txt
If the horse is a Standardbred which has raced, and has a lip tattoo, this website gives the year of birth code for the tattoo:
http://www.sphomaine.net/faq.html
Aging a horse by looking at the teeth can be a chancy way of figuring the age. If I was looking to buy a horse, since I'd be planning on having a pre-purchase vet check anyway, I'd have the vet do the age estimating for me. (And yes people do lie about the age of horses. A friend of mine went to buy a horse, and the people who were selling it to her told her the horse was 9. As it happened, I knew the horse and knew that it was actually 14.)
How to look at horse teeth using pictures?
just think of it this way, the pointier the teeth the older the horse
the mouth is like this : %26lt; and the more like that it is the older the horse, ( like that is young. its hard to explain with out me showing you on my own live horse
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