Horses seems to have the same spawning rules than 1x1x2 mobs (l*L*h) while they take damage as a 2*2*2 one.
The screenshot come from a new generated area so it can't be a child horse which have grown in the block.
Way to reproduce:
Travel through a biome with horses and hills and look for a suffocating horse
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