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Madeleine Gurdon was an equestrian competitor for nearly a decade, riding in three-day events, which require the same horse and rider pair to demonstrate skill in dressage, showjumping, and cross-country riding. In the 1980s she competed internationally, coming second at the Burghley Horse Trials in 1988. [4]
This introduced the concept of 'Minimum Values', which effectively stops the export of live horses for slaughter from Great Britain. The charity opened its first horse rehabilitation centre in Britain, in 1949, and started its first international training course in Morocco in 1985. In 2008, the organisation was renamed to World Horse Welfare. [1]
Grullo [1] (pronounced GREW-yo) [2] [a] or grulla is a color of horses in the dun family, characterized by tan-gray or mouse-colored hairs on the body, often with shoulder and dorsal stripes and black barring on the lower legs. The genotype for grulla horses is a black base with dun dilution.
British Horses and Ponies (Hon-no-Tomosha, 1944) Arab horse nonsense (1950) Drift of the Storm (G. Ronald, 1951) Horses in the Making (Allen & Unwin, 1951) The poems of Lady Wentworth: Volume 1 (1951) Passing Hours: Volume II in the series of Lady Wentworth's poetry (1952) The English country gentleman (Hurst & Blackett) Ponies past, present ...
Snowman, former plough horse rescued by rider Harry de Lyer from being butchered; won the 1958 National Horse Show Open Jumper championship against professional and Olympic level competition; twice named the American Horse Shows Association Horse of the Year; Totilas, first horse to score above a 90 in dressage
Outside of the horse world, Kusner is a licensed pilot with commercial, multi-engine, instrument, seaplane, and commercial glider ratings. [11] She obtained a Lear Jet -type rating, for the Lear 23 and 24, and became the first woman to work as a Lear Jet pilot for Executive Jet Aviation , which was the largest jet charter company in the world ...
The Kiger Mesteño Association separates dun shades into four categories: dun, red dun, grulla, and claybank. "Dun" as used by the Kiger registry covers dun horses with black points , and adds the terms zebra dun, dusty dun, smutty dun or coyote dun, depending on the exact shade of body color.
A bust of Nicolaus Copernicus at the United Nations Headquarters, New York City, a gift from the People's Republic of Poland to the United Nations (1970).. The United Nations Art Collection is a collective group of artworks and historic objects donated as gifts to the United Nations by its member states, associations, or individuals.