Culture

Profits from the sale of Tom Riddle’s “The Riddle Half (of Rood and Riddle)” will go to the AAEP’s Foundation for the Horse and the Theriogenology Foundation.

Iconic western works from the collection of T. Boone Pickens sold at Christie’s in New York.

“The study has shown the close regional relationships in Western Europe cave art since very early times, at least 25,000 years ago.”

“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.

Although the balls were found in the graves of horse riders, researchers cannot link them to any game akin to polo.

Bush racing and traditional and cultural horse sports are now being overseen by the South African Equestrian Federation.

Famous portrait from the collection of the Aga Khan sells for €450,000 at auction in Paris.

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.

Painting of 1936 Derby winner Mahmoud among works from the collection of the Aga Khan to be sold in Paris.

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”.