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Copy of the famous statue in Buenos Aires as part of an imposing monument with several bronze statues, reliefs and a large pedestal clad with polished red marble slabs José de San Martín: Plaza San Martín, Mercedes: 1954: Juan José Marín
An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'. [1] A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have typically been portraits of ...
It is a smaller edition of Keck's statue in Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City. George Washington at Valley Forge, by Henry Shrady, Washington Park, 1906, this cast 1925. A replica of Shrady's statue in Brooklyn, New York City. J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain, by Henri-Léon Gréber, Country Club Plaza, 1910.
It commemorates one of John Henry's most famous finishes; in 1981, at the inaugural Arlington Million, John Henry won over 5-year-old The Bart in a photo finish. On December 11, 1983, John Henry became the first racehorse to surpass $4 million in career earnings when he won the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes with jockey Chris McCarron at Hollywood ...
The original Horses inside the St Mark's Basilica The replica Horses of Saint Mark. The Horses of Saint Mark (Italian: Cavalli di San Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing).
Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933 – May 17, 1947) was a champion thoroughbred racehorse in the United States who became the top money-winning racehorse up to the 1940s. He beat the 1937 Triple Crown winner, War Admiral, by four lengths in a two-horse special at Pimlico and was voted American Horse of the Year for 1938.
D'Arcy Yellow Turk, early foundation stallion with at least 4 lines of descent each to the three foundation sire champion racehorses of Thoroughbreds: Eclipse, Herod, and Matchem; Darley Arabian, Godolphin Arabian and Byerly Turk, stallions from whom all Thoroughbreds are descended; Dilbagh and Gulbagh, horses of the Sikh guru, Guru Hargobind
Oju Chosan: Steeplechase race horse who won numerous JG1 races, most notably winning the Nakayama Grand Jump five times in a row. Orb: 2013 Kentucky Derby winner; Orfevre: winner of almost 20 million US dollars in earnings and is one of the highest earning racehorses ever; Overdose: champion Hungarian sprinter and winner of 14 straight races.