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Patricia Kelly wanted to help improve the quality of life in her community, so Ebony Horsewomen soon became a full-service equine therapeutic center housing horses, small therapy animals, and agriculture. The organization is a 36-year-old institution in Hartford's historic 693-acre Keney Park area in the Northend.
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The first cavalry 'horse guard' troop in Connecticut consisted of 37 men and horses from Hartford and surrounding towns, organized under Major John Mason, the colonies' military chief. Their uniforms were styled after the "Oxford Blues" of England's Royal Regiment of Horse Guards , and their shoulder patch was the winged thunderbolt.
The music video for the song "Feel the Love" by Rudimental featured Fletcher Street horses and riders. [ 18 ] In the second issue of the "Wasteland" storyline of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (part of the Hellboy comic universe), the character Nichols Nichols, who grew up in Philadelphia, is surprisingly knowledgeable about horses.
Stables can be maintained privately for an owner's own horses or operated as a public business where a fee is charged for keeping other people's horses. In some places, stables are run as riding schools , where horses are kept for the purpose of providing lessons for people learning to ride or even as a livery stable (US) or hireling yard (UK ...
A livery yard, livery stable or boarding stable, is a stable where horse owners pay a weekly or monthly fee to keep their horses. A livery or boarding yard is not usually a riding school and the horses are not normally for hire (unless on working livery - see below).
Horse Island, at 17 acres (69,000 m²), is the largest of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut. It is owned by Yale University and is maintained as an ecological laboratory by Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History .
Derrin House, located at the edge of the park. A white-blazed trail begins near the Avon Historical Society's Derrin House on West Avon Road (State Route 167).The trail follows a 1.5-mile (2.4 km), out-and-back route to a rocky crag with views of the surrounding area to the south and west.