The longest hair on a horse is its tail, but the longest mane in the world records was nine feet and ten inches.
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The sound comes from the friction of the bow hair (horse hair) and the string.
Theoretically you could, but it would be very hard to find someone to agree to use the horse hair to do the rehair job. Also, the quality of the horse hair could be well below normal standards. For a violin, white horse hair is the predominant type of hair used and other varieties will not produce a brilliant sound.
Horse hair is used to make violin bows.
On a horse.
The material is Horse Hair :)