Saint George Attributes Clothed as a crusader in plate armour or mail, often bearing a lance tipped by a cross, riding a white horse, often slaying a dragon. In the Greek East and Latin West he is shown with St George’s Cross emblazoned on his armour, or shield or banner. Read more…
The safest place to stand is beside your horse’s shoulder where you can see each other, or about 10 or more feet away unless you are grooming, tacking up or otherwise interacting with your horse. Never stand directly behind a horse. Where is the safest place to stand by a Read more…
A proud-cut horse is typically a gelding with an incomplete castration, resulting in stallion-like behavior. What causes a horse to be proud cut? “Proud cut” horses are geldings that express stallion-like behavior. This condition is typically caused because both stallion’s testis and the entire epididymis, the duct behind the testis Read more…
Some horses will chase people who venture into their pasture. It would not be safe to walk through that field. And in fact, you may be in more danger from the horse owner than the horses! Most horse owners and landowners adamantly DO NOT want you walking in their fields. Read more…
Krishna had 4 horses. The Charioter’s (Sarathi) name was Daruka. The name of the horses mentioned in the Ashvamedha Parva of Mahabharata. How many horses did Krishna’s chariot have? Now the question is why Krishna is shown driving a four horse chariot in the Mahabaharata war. One may argue that Read more…
Uchchaihshravas. Uchchaihshravas is often described as a vahana (“vehicle”) of Indra (the king of the gods), but is also recorded to be the horse of Bali, the king of the asuras (demons). Uchchaihshravas is said to be snow white in colour. How many horses were there in Indra chariot? Matali, Read more…
The Kathiawari has a concave facial profile, with a broad forehead and short muzzle. The neck and body are proportional and relatively short, while both the head and tail are carried high. Although well-proportioned, many Western breeders consider them to be lacking in bone in the legs. How do you Read more…
The horses were the integral part of the Mughal’s military and political culture which was specially used for the aristocratic occupations of war, pageantry and riding. What animals did the Mughal Empire use? The founder of Mughal dynasty emperor Babur (1526-1530) killed one-horned rhinoceros and wild ass. Then Akbar (1556-1605) Read more…
Hero. Speaking of General Longstreet’s horse: Longstreet’s favorite charger was called Hero. His Irish orderly pronounced it Haro, and soon so did everyone else. Haro was a well-bred 16 hands, “blood bay”, a colt of the celebrated and powerful stallion Red Eye, who before the war had won a great Read more…
The Marwari or Malani is a rare breed of horse from the Marwar (or Jodhpur) region of Rajasthan, in north-west India. It is closely related to the Kathiawari breed of the Kathiawar peninsula of Gujarat, with which it shares an unusual inward-curving shape of the ears. Which breed of horses Read more…