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unusual facts about The Horse


The Horse

The horn section which is featured eventually became the group MFSB.


Alpha Pegasi

It has the traditional name Markab (or Marchab), which comes from an Arabic word مركب markab, "the saddle of the horse", or is mistranscription of Mankib comes from an Arabic phrase منكب الفرس Mankib al-Faras, "(the Star of) the Shoulder (of the Constellation) of the Horse" for β Pegasi.

The Dirty Rooks

It was the second time The Dirty Rooks recorded with producer Mike Hagler (Wilco, Neko Case), along with Jon Langford (Waco Brothers, The Mekons), and James Elkington (The Zincs , The Horse's Ha).


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1985 Grand National

Richard Pitman presented a post race rerun, using camera shots not used during the original broadcast, to show viewers what fate had befallen the horse they had backed.

Balius and Xanthus

Another Xanthus, not to be confused with the horse mentioned above, was one of the horses of Diomedes of Thrace, who fed these animals on human flesh.

Bill Richmond

After his retirement from boxing, he bought the Horse and Dolphin pub in Leicester Square and set up a boxing academy.

Carel Frederik Krahmer de Bichin

Now the action unfolded that is depicted in Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht's painting, entitled De rijdende artillerie komt in stelling (The horse artillery unlimbers).

Carlos Enríquez Gómez

A transposition of the Rape of the Sabine Women to the Cuban fields, it is said that Enríquez had a horse brought to his workshop, tied Sara Cheméndez (his female model at the time) to the horse and had the animal lashed, in order to have a more realistic scene for the painting.

Carry On at Your Convenience

Sid and Beattie find that Joey can correctly predict winners of horseraces – he tweets when the horse's name is read out.

Celtic Swing

All was set for the 2,000 Guineas on 6 May 1995, a race run amid almost unbearable expectations (on that day's Morning Line, John McCririck said to Jim McGrath, who was strongly involved with Timeform which had said that the race was a "certainty", that if the horse did not win by at least eight lengths McGrath was finished).

Charlotte Hayes

Hayes's story is told in detail in Hallie Rubenhold's The Covent Garden Ladies (2005), as well as in Nicholas Clee's Eclipse: the Story of the Rogue, the Madam and the Horse That Changed Racing (2009).

Conyers Clifford

On coming to the Curlew Mountains, the baggage and ammunition were halted under the protection of the horse, while the infantry attempted the passage.

Coronach, Saskatchewan

It was founded in 1926 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and named after Coronach, the horse who had just won the Epsom Derby in England that year.

Eddie Delahoussaye

Eddie Delahoussaye remains active in the horse racing industry and is a member of the board of directors of the Edwin J. Gregson Foundation.

Eleonora Aguiari

In order to do this she needed clearance letters from the RCA Rector, a professor, the Victoria and Albert museum conservation department and the RCA conservation department, bronze tests, a scaffolding license, indemnity insurance, and permission from English Heritage (who own the statue), the City of Westminster, the Boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington (their boundary bisects the length of the horse) and the present Lord Napier.

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Glenn's family was first assigned to live in the horse stables at a race track in Turlock, California, and thereafter was sent to the Gila River camp in the Arizona desert, and then to the Heart Mountain camp in the high country of Wyoming.

George Krauss

He took part in the expansion of railway lines in the Saxony, Thuringia and Alsace, in the conversion of the horse-drawn tramways to steam operations in Munich and Vienna, the building of the Chiemsee Railway and the establishment of the Lokalbahn AG.

Hambletonian

The Hambletonian Stakes, a major American harness race, named after the horse

Horse goddess

Epona, the horse goddess in Celtic and Gallo-Roman mythology

Horse Guards Road

To the west of the road is St. James's Park and to the east are various government buildings, including the Horse Guards building, the Old Admiralty Buildings, the Cabinet Office, Downing Street (the entrance to which is blocked by an iron gate), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and HM Treasury.

Horse of the Year Show

Monty Roberts has described the Horse of the Year Show as the "Best in the world. It is the "World's Most Famous Horse Show".

Horse's Neck

Ian Fleming, in the 1966 book Octopussy, describes the Horse's Neck as "the drunkard's drink"; he was also quite partial to them himself.

Horseferry Road

In 1736, Princess Augusta, who became the mother of George III, crossed the Thames via the horse ferry on the way to her wedding.

Iliupersis

When night comes, the Greek warriors inside the horse emerge, and open the city gates to let in the Greek army, which has sailed back from Tenedos.

Jan Wyck

Other scenes he painted include the Siege of Derry (1689), and the horse and battle portion of Godfrey Kneller's famous portrait of the Duke of Schomberg, who had been killed at the Battle of the Boyne.

John Cheyne

John Cheyne, Baron Cheyne (1445–1499), Master of the Horse to Edward IV of England

Kerry Hannon

Hannon’s work has appeared in CBS MoneyWatch.com, AARP Bulletin Today, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Institutional Investor, USAA Magazine, Working Woman, Bloomberg Personal Finance, Your Company, Prism, The Chronicle of The Horse and Advertising Age, among other national publications.

KGNC

Regular programs include Coast to Coast AM with Ian Punnett, The Horse Show, The Cowboy Corner, The Lutheran Hour, South Georgia Baptist Church, The Kim Komando Show, The Dave Ramsey Show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, and select paid programming.

Knabstrup

Knabstrup Manor, where the horse breed Knabstrupper was bred, is located 2 kilometres southeast of the town.

Leiper Canal

The horse-drawn tramway, the Leiper Railroad, carried stone from the quarry for 18 years before the opening of the canal.

Marquess of Cholmondeley

He was a prominent military commander and commanded the Horse Guards at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

Mary Mackie

Her historical novel The People of the Horse (1987), about Queen Boudicca of the Iceni, was translated into Czech and Hungarian.

Morley Street

The horse was named after a street close to Jackson's Salehurst office, near London Waterloo station.

Nobiz Like Shobiz

The horse was given the name Nobiz Like Shobiz by his show business owner Elizabeth J. Valando whose late husband Tommy Valando was a Broadway theatre producer and owner of an important music publishing business.

Pancho Martin

Martin, portrayed by actor Nestor Serrano, is shown laying personal insults on the Secretariat team, and proclaiming during a press conference that the horse is not worthy to compete with Sham.

Parole Hunt Club

Carroll's horse ran against Dungannon, (aka "Duncannon"), a thoroughbred racehorse owned by the tobacco planter and horse breeder George Hume Steuart (1700-1784), who had imported the horse from England.

Peter Francisco

In a petition Francisco wrote 11 November 1820 to the Virginia Legislature in his own words, he said that at Camden, he had shot a grenadier who had tried to shoot his Colonel (Mayo); he escaped by bayoneting one of Banastre Tarleton's cavalrymen and fled on the horse making cries to make the British think he was a Loyalist, and gave the horse to Mayo.

Rocinate

Based on the artwork on the album cover, it appears that the title is a misspelling of the name Rocinante - the horse from Don Quixote.

Rose of the Prophet

Khardan: Calif of the horse-herding Akar and son of Sheikh Majiid, prophet of Akhran.

Stronach Group

In 2006, Magna Entertainment Corporation completed its purchase of AmTote International, who provide totalizator services to the horse racing industry.

Taltos

Táltos, in Hungarian tradition a human being similar to a shaman, or alternately the horse of such a person, called the Táltos Horse

The Belles of St Trinian's

When the students discover that the Sultan's racehorse, "Arab Boy", is entered for the upcoming Cheltenham Gold Cup race, they use Fatima's influence to watch the horse work out.

The Horse Whisperer

Buck Brannaman, named by Nicholas Evans as the primary inspiration for his book The Horse Whisperer

The Motor Bus

The poem traditionally commemorates the introduction of a motorised omnibus service in the city of Oxford (Corn and High are the colloquial names of streets in the centre of the city where several Colleges of the University are located), thereby shattering the bucolic charm of the horse-drawn age.

The Mountain Road

The set for the Chinese village was erected on the Horse Mesa Dam Road, 40 miles east of Phoenix; another set was erected in the vicinity of Superstition Mountain.

Thomas Beach

Portraits of Sir Edward Wilmot, bart., M.D., and Richard Tattersall, the horse dealer who established 'Tattersall's, were exhibited in the National Portrait Exhibition of 1867.

Thomas Darley

The horse, a bay, was tall for an Arabian horse of the time was 15 hands when described by Darley in a letter to his brother dated 21 December 1703.

Tibiotarsal joint

Synovial distension of the tibiotarsal joint in the horse is known as Bog spavin.

Tryphiodorus

Tryphiodorus lists the heroes that entered the wooden horse, including Odysseus and Anticlus son of Ortyx, and tells how, when Helen circled the horse calling the names of the Greeks' wives, Odysseus had to strangle Anticlus in order to prevent his calling out.

Tsunomaru

--That's what I think the Japanese Wikipedia is saying; someone should confirm that--> Tsunomaru is best known for the horse-racing comedy Midori no Makibaō, which was adapted as a 61-episode anime television series and received the 1997 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.

Warwickshire Yeomanry

During the move, the horse transport Wayfarer was torpedoed on 11 April 1915 having just left Avonmouth; although she did not sink, the horses had to be rescued.