Hey, I bet you didn't know this.

Kentucky is home to the largest Icelandic horse park in North America.

Let Lakey in.

Shelbyville houses more than 90 of the friendly furry animals.

My daughter decided she wanted to have a horse, and at seven, she needed to have a very safe horse.

So she went looking and decided Icelandic were a great breed.

They have wonderful temperaments.

They're very easygoing.

They're smaller horses.

And it turned out the leading importer of Icelandic at that time was just in William County next door.

So it's been a wonderful journey for us for over 20 years with Icelandic horses.

These horses were some original ancient horses of Europe.

They were brought by the Vikings to Iceland.

It's warmer than Chicago, but they had to adapt to being in Iceland.

And so they started with at first having to eat very little because there's only three months of grass in the summer.

So they had to adapt to 80% of their annual calories in the summer.

And then in the winter, the seaweed, lichens, whatever they can scrounge.

But they come in every color of the rainbow.

They're very gentle and thoughtful, partly because there are no predators in Iceland.

And so that means that they don't have to worry about some of the flight that other horses naturally have.

They also developed a second coat, which means in the winter they are very fussy.

They look like big wooly teddy bears.

And so they adapted to this somewhat harsh climate.

And the Icelanders used them for everything.

We try to raise our horses in the traditional Icelandic way, which means that for the first three years of their life, they grow up in a herd after they're weaned from their mothers and learn manners from older horses.

We call them uncle and aunt horses who teach them how to give each other space and how to behave.

And then when they're three, we bring them in for just two weeks, two short weeks, and they learn some basics of how to be horses.

And it's usually very easy.

It's not difficult at all because they've already learned some of the politeness from the other horses, and then they go away again for a year.

And the amazing thing is, when they come back when they're four, they remember absolutely everything.

And then we don't actually start writing them till they're five, and they can't be in serious competition until they're six, when all their bones and muscles have really fully developed.

And that's part of the reason these horses live so long.

We have many horses in their 30s here on the farm.

You can feel comfortable with them.

They're still horses.

They can go fast, they can be fun.

But they have a very good relationship with human beings.

And I think that's part of what's nice for people when they first start riding here.

How interesting.

Well, the farm offers riding lessons and has a breeding program where they have about three foals a year.