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21st century. Today, Tattersalls is the leading bloodstock auctioneer in Europe, selling 10,000 horses a year. It still prices horses in guineas (originally 21 shillings and now one pound and five pence ), in accordance with horse-racing tradition. This firm (at the time trading under the style of "Messrs. Tattersall") has the distinction of ...
The sale of meat labelled as horse meat in UK supermarkets and butchers is minimal, and most actual horse meat consumed in the UK is imported from continental Europe, predominantly from the south of France, where it is more widely eaten. [111] Horse meat was featured in a segment of a 2007 episode of the Gordon Ramsay series The F Word.
The 2013 horse meat scandal was a food industry scandal in parts of Europe in which foods advertised as containing beef were found to contain undeclared or improperly declared horse meat —as much as 100% of the meat content in some cases. [ 1] A smaller number of products also contained other undeclared meats, such as pork. [ 2]
The known history of the horse in Britain starts with horse remains found in Pakefield, Suffolk, dating from 700,000 BC, and in Boxgrove, West Sussex, dating from 500,000 BC. Early humans were active hunters of horses, and finds from the Ice Age have been recovered from many sites. At that time, land which now forms the British Isles was part ...
The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m (360 ft) [1] long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk.The figure is situated on the upper slopes of Whitehorse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington in Oxfordshire, some 16 km (10 mi) east of Swindon, 8 km (5.0 mi) south of the town of Faringdon and a similar distance west of the town of Wantage; or 2. ...
List of British racecourses. This List of British racecourses gives details of both current and former horse racing venues in Great Britain. As of 11 August 2024, there are 59 racecourses operating in Great Britain (excluding Point-to-Point courses). Hereford racecourse reopened in October 2016 having been closed since 2012.
English. Website. horseandhound .co .uk. ISSN. 0018-5140. Horse & Hound is the oldest equestrian weekly magazine of the United Kingdom. [2] Its first edition was published in 1884. [3] The magazine contains horse industry news, reports from equestrian events, veterinary advice about caring for horses, and horses for sale.
Mountain and moorland pony breeds, abbreviated "M&M," a specific group of pony breeds native to the British Isles. New Zealand Warmblood, a developing warmblood type based on Hanoverian and KWPF breeding. Oriental horse, the "hot-blooded" breeds originating in the Middle East, such as the Arabian, Akhal-Teke, Barb, and Turkoman horse.