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The earliest horse remains found in the area now covered by Britain and Ireland date to the Middle Pleistocene.Two species of horses have been identified from remains at Pakefield, East Anglia, dating back to 700,000 BC. [1]
Rough Quest was a bay horse bred in England by Michael Healy. He was sired by Crash Course who won the Doncaster Cup and became a successful National Hunt stallion: his other progeny included Jodami, Esha Ness and Maid of Money (Irish Grand National). [3]
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The following is a list of equestrian statues in the United Kingdom and includes equestrian statues, where a rider is mounted on a horse; and equine statues, where the horse is riderless, and/or the rider the is dismounted.
horsetrust.org.uk The Horse Trust (formerly The Home of Rest for Horses until September 2006) is an equine charity in the United Kingdom, [ 1 ] based at Speen near Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire .
It is common to think of them as taking place in three legs.. The first leg is made up of the Newmarket Classics – 1000 Guineas and 2000 Guineas.Given that the 1,000 Guineas is restricted to fillies, this is regarded as the fillies' classic and the 2,000, which is open to both sexes, as the colts' classic, although it is theoretically possible for a filly to compete in both.
A gross profit tax is levied on all UK based bookmakers which is payable to the exchequer, and a separate sum is agreed and collected by the Horserace Betting Levy Board, a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, who use the funds for race prize money and the improvement of horse racing. [51]
The British Riding Clubs (BRC) movement became affiliated to The British Horse Society over fifty years ago, when several riding clubs from the South East England area approached the BHS with the idea of providing a scheme where riding clubs could become affiliated to the BHS, while remaining relatively autonomous, running their own affairs.