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The Marly horses were later also used as the central motif of the monochrome 819-line RTF/ORTF test card [2] which was used on TF1 from 1953 until 1983. [3] The originals were moved to the place de la Concorde in Paris in 1794 and Louis-Denis Caillouette (1790–1868) restored them in 1840.
Kelso: only five-time U.S. Horse of the Year, in the list of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century by The Blood-Horse magazine, Kelso ranks 4th; Kincsem: Hungarian race mare and most successful racehorse ever, winning all 54 starts in five countries; Kindergarten: weighted more than Phar Lap in the Melbourne Cup
The colossal pair of marble "Horse Tamers"—often identified as Castor and Pollux—have stood since antiquity near the site of the Baths of Constantine on the Quirinal Hill, Rome. Napoleon 's agents wanted to include them among the classical booty removed from Rome after the 1797 Treaty of Tolentino , but they were too large to be buried or ...
Coolmore Stud, in Fethard, County Tipperary, Ireland, is the headquarters of one of the world's largest breeding operation of thoroughbred racehorses. [1] Through its racing arm, Ballydoyle, Coolmore also has raced many classic winners and champions. [2]
The horses reinvent the theme of the colossal Roman marbles of the Horse Tamers in the Piazza Quirinale, Rome. They were commissioned by Louis XV in 1739 and installed in 1745 at the Abreuvoir ("Horse Trough") at Marly. The horses were considered masterpieces of the grace and expressiveness of the French Late Baroque or Rococo style. [2]
Each depicts a youth attempting to control a rearing horse. The bronze sculptures are approximately fifteen feet (4.57 m) tall, and stand upon granite bases which are approximately eleven feet (3.35 m) tall. [4] The sculptures are on the City of Pittsburgh's list of designated historic landmarks. [1]
This category is primarily for breeders of Thoroughbred race horses. Some entries may be breeders of other breeds that are primarily used for racing, such as the Standardbred . However, it is not appropriate to list breeders of other horse breeds here unless that breeder was exclusively or primarily breeding horses specifically for the track.
The list features two horses called Peter Simple and two called Royal Mail. It also includes two with slightly different spellings, Mathew (1847) and Matthew (1902). For the purposes of this article, the horses with identical names are distinguished by (1) and (2).