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Equestrian statue of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa n the outer gardens of the Imperial Palace, 1904. Equestrian statue of Prince Komatsu Akihito at the Ueno Park, 1912. Equestrian statue of Field marshal Ōyama Iwao in Kudanzaka, 1918. Equestrian statue of Nitta Yoshisada close to Bubaikawara Station in Fuchū, 1988.
A horse show competitor wearing contemporary stretch-fabric jodhpurs. Jodhpurs, in their modern form, are tight-fitting trousers to the ankle, where they end in a snug cuff, and are worn primarily for horse riding. The term is also used as slang for a type of short riding boot, also called a paddock boot or a jodhpur boot, because they are worn ...
Novelist Rita Mae Brown once stated, "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle." There are occasional examples of men riding sideways or sidesaddle on a horse other than for humorous, drag, or satirical purposes: During World War II when riders laid field telephone cable from a cable-drum on the back of a galloping horse.
The Horse in Motion. The Horse in Motion is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a sequential series of six to twelve "automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse. Muybridge shot the photographs in June 1878.
Eadweard Muybridge ( / ˌɛdwərd ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ /; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first name "Eadweard" as the original Anglo-Saxon form of "Edward", and the surname ...
The following is a list of equestrian statues in the United Kingdom and includes equestrian statues, where a rider is mounted on a horse; and equine statues, where the horse is riderless, and/or the rider the is dismounted.
Mongolia holds more than 5 million horses, an equine population which outnumbers the country's human population. The horses live outdoors all year at 30 °C (86 °F) in summer down to −40 °C (−40 °F) in winter, and search for food on their own. The mare's milk is processed into the national beverage airag, and some animals are slaughtered ...
Equestrian statue. An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning ' knight ', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'. [1] A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have ...