A HORSE is really just a cow with elongated legs, it has emerged.

The government has issued households with horse photographs after realising most people didn’t know what one looked like.

36-year-old Tom Booker said: “I’m more into telly about trucks on icy roads so I’d never actually seen a so-called ‘horse’.

“I had been really freaked out by this whole meat uproar because I thought horses were small spiny things with monkey-like faces and expressive eyebrows.”