Do horses in hot countries grow winter coats?

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Popular thoughts are that winter coats growths are influenced by changes in light rather than weather.

I have a native pony and if we moved to say Africa which is hot most of the year would he still start shedding his summer coat now to get rid of winter?
 
I spent a year in California (ok, not as hot as Africa, but still much nicer than England) and the horses still grew their winter woolies as usual. The part that I didn't get was that they rugged them as well! We were going around in jeans and t-shirts in December (and I was going surfing most days) and the horses were rugged at night even though they weren't clipped. Cultural thing I guess. Come to think of it I didn't see a single body clip while I was there (I rode western).
 
they do :)

When we were in south africa in 2008 (part of pony club tour) it was their winter, and the horses we were riding had quite thick winter coats!
there it was dark about 5pm so probably had something to do with that as well :)
 
i think horses adapt. i imported mine from the czech republic (which have very cold winters) and for the first winter in england she retained a thick winter coat, she's a fine warmblood and it was the woolliest i'd ever seen such a fine horse, but gradually she has grown less coat in winter, i've had her for over 6 years now.
 
I used to see horses in Indonesia during 8 years there, but they never had thick coats ... it was hot all year round and the daylight hours were pretty much the same length all year, so maybe the stimulus was just never there.
 
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