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Rugged Lark, famous quarter horse owned by Carol Harris, in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame; Sampson, the tallest horse ever recorded; a Shire; stood 21.25 hands (86.5 inches; 220 cm) high; Spanker was a 17th-century sire of many important horses. Thunder, Red Ryder's horse; Traveler, mascot of the University of Southern California
Goldsmith Maid: famous harness racing mare of the 19th century [3] Good Magic: winner of the 2017 Breeders Cup: Juvenile, the 2018 Blue Grass Stakes and the 2018 Haskell Stakes; Grass Wonder: Winner of the 1999 Takarazuka and Arima Kinen; sired Screen Hero and Earnestly; Greyhound: named Trotting Horse of the Century in the US
Bucephalus (/ b juː. ˈ s ɛ. f ə. l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Βουκεφᾰ́λᾱς, romanized: Būcephắlās; c. 355 BC – June 326 BC) or Bucephalas, was the horse of Alexander the Great, and one of the most famous horses of classical antiquity. [1]
The past can be quite fascinating.Those of us living in the present find it really interesting what life was like 50, 100, or even a 1,000 years ago. Luckily, we can go almost 200 years to the ...
York County native Jess Bowers tells the stories of horses throughout American history and the role they played in film and photography in her debut historical fiction book "Horse Show."
The Horse in Motion: June 1878 Eadweard Muybridge: Palo Alto, California, United States Composite from multiple glass plates Series of cabinet cards regarded as a precursor to motion pictures. Pictured left is the variant Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, which further captured a horse's motion. [s 2] [s 3] [s 4]
Lascaux, Horse, c. Stone Age cave painting George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, c. 1762, National Gallery, London. Horses have appeared in works of art throughout history, frequently as depictions of the horse in battle. The horse appears less frequently in modern art, partly because the horse is no longer significant either as a mode of ...
Sherman's secondary horse Don Juan [1] George Armstrong Custer: One of Custer's secondary horses Duke: William T. Sherman: In a letter in 1888, Sherman wrote that his favorite horse throughout the war was the one he rode in Atlanta: Egypt: Ulysses S. Grant: One of many secondary horses used by Grant Fancy: John F. Reynolds: Reynolds' favorite ...