She sat in the arena next to her son Prince Edward and the Countess of Burma, Penny Knatchbull. The outing in Windsor comes after she missed Tuesday’s opening of parliament for the first time in 59 years, with Prince Charles Read more…
Royal Service Staff Sergeant Ralph Cave, the Riding Master for the Musical Ride, suggested in 1968 that the RCMP gift one of the ride’s horses to Canada’s monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Who gave Queen Elizabeth a horse? Queen Elizabeth’s First Read more…
One of Britain’s most well-known racecourses, Ascot holds a special week of races in June each year called Royal Ascot, attended by The Queen, who has had an interest in horses since childhood. What horse racing does the Queen go Read more…
Laocoön did not give up trying to convince the Trojans to burn the horse. According to one source, it was Athena who punished Laocoön even further, by sending two giant sea serpents to strangle and kill him and his two Read more…
Laocoön, a priest of Neptune, warned the Trojans that the wooden horse was either full of soldiers or a war machine. Defiantly hurling a spear into the horse’s side, he implored his countrymen to remember the last time the Greeks Read more…
Laocoön, a priest of Neptune, warned the Trojans that the wooden horse was either full of soldiers or a war machine. Defiantly hurling a spear into the horse’s side, he implored his countrymen to remember the last time the Greeks Read more…
He entered stud in 1989 and was later sold to a breeding farm in Japan in 1994. Much to the outrage of many horse racing enthusiasts, reports indicate that in 2002, Ferdinand was sent to slaughter in Japan with no Read more…
The most famous account of these is now in Virgil’s Aeneid where Laocoön was a priest of Neptune (Poseidon), who was killed with both his sons after attempting to expose the ruse of the Trojan Horse by striking it with Read more…
These events gave rise to a relationship that continued to grow throughout her life. In 1969, Police Service Horse Burmese was offered to the Queen. Forever one of her most beloved horses, Burmese accompanied Her Majesty on 18 Trooping the Read more…
chestnut KWPN gelding. Charlotte and her new horse “Pumpkin”. Charlotte Dujardin has debuted her new dressage star, a 6-year-old chestnut KWPN gelding by the name of the Gio (Apache x Tango). Are pumpkins good horses? Orange pumpkins, including the seeds Read more…