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In a welcome respite from the unyielding onslaught of heavy 2017 news stories, Bored Panda — a web site dedicated mostly to stories about interesting and adorable animals — posted a story with the title If You Ever Feel Sad, Just Remember That Horses Can Grow Moustaches. The intriguingly titled post, which first hit Facebook on 26 September 2017, contains the photos of a number of mustachioed equines and this claim of their origins: While we have uncovered no evidence that a specific equine mustache gene has been identified (we have reached out to multiple experts in horse genetics for clarification on this point), it is absolutely factual that Gypsy Vanner horses can, in some but not all cases, grow mustaches. This trait is not limited to that breed of horse, however. Horse picture number eight on the Bored Panda post is actually a low-key horse celebrity named Alfie, who the Daily Mail once claimed had the longest horse mustache of all. This horse is a Shire mix, not a Gypsy Vanner. According to the Gypsy Vanner Horse Society, that breed's origin is a mélange of Shires, Clydesdales, and and British Pony genetics: Many of these breeds, on their own or in a mix, are also capable of mustache growth. As such, we cannot say neigh, and we rank the claim that mustachioed horses exist as true.
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