1899 Photo
1899, Félix Thiollier, Horses, Photography
Lady & her horse in snowstorm by Félix Thiollier.
Category Archive 'Horses'
10 Apr 2022
1899 Photo1899, Félix Thiollier, Horses, Photography
31 Oct 2019
“Not All Heroes Were Capes”California, Horses, Thoroughbreds
20 Aug 2019
Vonolel, General Roberts’ ChargerArab Horses, History, Horses, Lord Roberts of Kandahar, Vonolel
“ENGLEMERE, ASCOT, BERKS, ———————– Kipling’s tribute to Lord Roberts: “Bobs” (an excerpt): If you stood ’im on ’is head, What ’e does not know o’ war, Now they’ve made a bloomin’ Lord ———————–
Many people walking the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham will pass a small grave without noticing, and yet this grave is perhaps the most unusual grave in Dublin itself. In the grounds of the Hospital, one finds the final resting place of ‘Vonolel’, twenty-nine years old on passing, but a veteran of conflict. In the parade celebrating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, General Roberts led the colonial contingents in the procession on his grey ‘Vonolel’, the only horse to be awarded campaign medals for the Afghan Campaign and the March to Kandahar.
So read The Irish Times of October 21, 1899. Much more information on the horse can be gathered from an earlier piece however, dating from January of the same year, when Vonolel was still living. In it, it was noted that Vonolel had come to England “having been practically all over the world with his masterâ€. He was described as “..a type of the highest class of Arab charger†and it was noted that “he traces his descent from the best blood of the desert.†24 Dec 2017
Riding the Dakota Prairie on Christmas Eve.Christmas Eve, Horses, South Dakota, The West, Wall Street JournalBy J. Bottum, from the December 22, 2000 Wall Street Journal:
Nice story RTWT. 06 Oct 2016
Grand Prix Jumping PhotosGrand Prix Jumping, Horses, PhotographyBen Maher of Great Britian on Alfredo during Day 2 of the 79th German Dressage and Jumping Derby 2008 at Klein Flottbek Derby Park on May 02, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany. 03 May 2015
Hannah and Her Horse VideoDIRECTV, Entertaining Commercials, HorsesA video featuring the two stars of the DIRECTV Commercials: 11 Nov 2014
Remembrance Day Hunting BraidArmistice Day, Foxhunting, Horses, Veterans Day
Hat tip to Karen L. Myers. 06 Dec 2013
Italian Cavalry School 1906Federico Caprilli, Horses, Italy, The Forward Seat
That rider is Federico Caprilli. Hat tip to Ratak Mondosico. Feeds
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