Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Copy of the famous statue in Buenos Aires as part of an imposing monument with several bronze statues, reliefs and a large pedestal clad with polished red marble slabs José de San Martín: Plaza San Martín, Mercedes: 1954: Juan José Marín
D'Arcy Yellow Turk, early foundation stallion with at least 4 lines of descent each to the three foundation sire champion racehorses of Thoroughbreds: Eclipse, Herod, and Matchem; Darley Arabian, Godolphin Arabian and Byerly Turk, stallions from whom all Thoroughbreds are descended; Dilbagh and Gulbagh, horses of the Sikh guru, Guru Hargobind
The statue portrays the Iron Duke on a campaign, mounted on his horse Copenhagen, with all hooves planted on the ground. It was executed in bronze by the sculptor Joseph Boehm and unveiled in 1888. The figures at the corners of the pedestal representative British soldiers, a Grenadier , a Scottish Highlander , an Irish Dragoon and a Welsh ...
Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.
An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'. [1] A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have typically been portraits of ...
Citation was then sent to Baltimore where he won the Preakness Stakes by 5 1 ⁄ 2 lengths. [4] There was a 4-week gap between the Preakness and Belmont and Citation's trainer thought he should run in a race during that time as a "warm-up" for Cy's Belmont. It was decided Cy would run in the Jersey Stakes which he won by an easy 11 lengths.
4× U.S. Champion Turf Horse (1980, 1981, 1983, 1984) 2× United States Horse of the Year (1981, 1984) Honors; U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (1990) #23 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century Statue at Arlington Park Statue at Santa Anita Park: Last updated on September 17, 2006
The original Horses inside the St Mark's Basilica The replica Horses of Saint Mark. The Horses of Saint Mark (Italian: Cavalli di San Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing).