Leading equestrian artists feature in sale of oilman’s cowboy collection
“The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection” will go under the hammer at Christie’s in New York later this month.
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Mounted Chinese warriors played ball sports to stay fit 3000 years ago – researchers
Although the balls were found in the graves of horse riders, researchers cannot link them to any game akin to polo.
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South Africa welcomes new “traditional” equestrian discipline
Bush racing and traditional and cultural horse sports are now being overseen by the South African Equestrian Federation.
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Munnings portrait of Mahmoud tops half-million dollar mark
Famous portrait from the collection of the Aga Khan sells for €450,000 at auction in Paris.
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$450K estimate for early Toulouse-Lautrec hunting works
The later of two works, “Cheval de chasse à courre”, painted when the artist was only about 16, is exected to fetch up to $US250,000.
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William Cavendish: An English Giant of French Dressage
François Robichon de la Guérinière invoked Cavendish in the immensely influential 18th-century treatise École de Cavalerie (1733) as “the greatest expert of his age in the matter of horses.”
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The search for the cradle of horse domestication goes on
Testing of ancient DNA largely rules out Asia Minor, according to researchers, who suggest the focus should be on the Black Sea region.
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Mahmoud painting by Sir Alfred Munnings up for auction
Painting of 1936 Derby winner Mahmoud among works from the collection of the Aga Khan to be sold in Paris.
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Morgan horse breed’s famous founder memorialised
Historical marker to be unveiled following a long search to find Justin Morgan’s original home in Vermont.
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Earliest known art in British Isles included horse depictions – study
“The engraved stones are firmly domestic art – this may have been important as people moved back into northern Europe towards the end of the last Ice Age.”
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How we found Europe’s oldest bone tools – and what we learned about their makers
The importance of the so-called “Horse Butchery Site” in England, inhabited by humans nearly 500,000 years ago, is explained by archaeologist Matt Pope.
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Horse butchered 480,000 years ago helps unravel the lives of extinct humans
The team worked with a reconstruction artist to bring the site and its social complexity to life.
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Historic find in Scotland provides insights into use of horse harness 3000 years ago
Archaeologists traced the remaining outlines of leather straps attached to the metal harness components, providing insights into how the harness was employed.
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The art of the farrier showcased in new photographic book
“The Farrier” is the “culmination of a 10-year project with one purpose: to share joy and pride for the craft of farriery”.
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Sixteenth-century English books on horsemanship
Though Early Modern British horsemen, like generations of their descendants, preferred hunting to schooling, “manège riding,” “had been practiced at the English court since the early sixteenth century”.
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Warriors on horseback arose on the Eurasian steppe no later than 1600BC – study
The remains of two horses found in a burial mound in Kazakhstan reveal important insights into early horsemen.
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Paola’s ride for peace crosses two continents
Paola Giacomini overcame a raft of challenges during her 15-month journey in the saddle.
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A horseback ride into the unknown: An ocean to ocean Eurasian adventure
Nikita Gretsi plans to ride from Russia’s Pacific coast, across Sibera, to the Atlantic coast of Europe, then on to London.
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Horse manure an unlikely ally in unmasking art forgeries
“Absolute dating of paintings that contain inorganic pigments has been achieved,” the study team concluded.
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Rereading Xenophon’s “On Horsemanship”
Whatever one’s discipline or its tutelary giants, rereading Xenophon of Athens, the celebrated horseman from classical antiquity, always repays the effort.
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