NEWS AND COMMENT: The Times has an article today May 23, 2022, which makes my blood boil. Rowan Atkinson is famous for his character Mr Bean, a bumbling catastrophe-making individual who was extremely successful and highly amusing. But this story is not highly amusing and …
In a new book which marks Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne, Sir Michael Morpurgo explains the origin of her lifelong love for horses. Sir Michael Morpurgo is a children’s author and he was having lunch at Buckingham Palace. He sat next to …
NEWS AND COMMENT-HOSTOMEL, NEAR KYIV, UKRAINE: Sasha, 26, (we don’t know her surname) owned horse stables at Hostomel. She also owned (with businessman Roman?) two Grand Prix standard showjumping horses at the stables; Cassandro and Pakistan. Roman also owned a rescue horse called Valencia. The …
This is both a difficult video to watch because the horse is trapped in barbed wire but at the same time it is inspirational and pleasant to watch because the man, with tenderness and respect for the horse, releases her and helps her to recover …
Sir Mark Todd has issued a grovelling apology after video footage shows him whipping a horse with a branch 10 times according to The Mirror newspaper. The footage is on the social media website TikTok. It was recorded by Chloe T. It shows Todd, 65, …
It seems that the refinement of the racehorse through selective breeding has reached a ceiling because they are not getting any quicker. In fact, many of today’s records are 50 years old. For example, the great Classic race, the Derby, was run in record time …
NEWS AND COMMENT-UK: You may have read Sarah Moulds’s story. I wrote about it some time ago (click here if you wish to read the backstory). It was well discussed in news media. She is a primary school teacher or was. She was a follower …
Mediaeval horses were small by today’s standards partly because people were considerably smaller. They were no bigger than modern-day ponies. Researchers from a number of British universities analysed the bones of 1,964 horses dating from A.D. 300 to A.D. 1650. They found that the average …
In 1988, a survey at that time concluded that there were a total of 207 distinct breeds of horse. However, it is a difficult question to answer with precision because some of these breeds may be valid and some may not. It depends how you …
