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2 unusual facts about The Horses


The Horses

Whilst not released as a single, the original Rickie Lee Jones version did appear in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, and was also included on the film's soundtrack.

It was released as a single on March 3, 1991 and reached No. 1 on the Australian charts.



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Alfred Gatley

In 1844 he received the silver medal for the best model from the life, and exhibited marble busts of "Cupid" and "Psyche", and in 1846 he exhibited a bust of Marshal Espartero, and a model in bas-relief of "The Hours leading out the Horses of the Sun", which went to the library of Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire.

Appledore Lifeboat Station

During World War I it became difficult to find the horses and men necessary for launching boats at Braunton Burrows so it too was closed temporarily in 1918 but this became permanent the following year.

Arsenio Laurel

He was among the first champion racers in the early years of organized auto racing in the Philippines, driving his 1954 Studebaker on the oval of the Santa Ana Hippodrome in Manila (when the horses were not running).

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.

Brethertons

“such was the local enthusiasm that when Count Wratislaw returned from London, some of the townsmen went to meet him at Dunchurch, took the horses out of his carriage and drew him triumphantly into the Town.”

Company quartermaster sergeant

He was also responsible for acquiring fuel, forage for the horses, and straw for bedding for the company.

Forest Park Carousel

The New York City Parks Department has been seeking a new vendor, and is also submitting an application for and Environmental Protection Fund grant to help restore the horses.

Fresh Wine for the Horses

Fresh Wine for the Horses is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter, former Catherine Wheel frontman Rob Dickinson.

Gardenia Stakes top three finishers

This is a listing of the horses that finished in either first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Gardenia Stakes, an American Grade 3 race for three-year-olds and up at 1-1/16 miles on synthetic surface held at Ellis Park in Henderson, Kentucky.

General Stud Book

In 1791, James Weatherby published Introduction to a General Stud Book, which was an attempt to collect pedigrees for the horses racing then and that had raced in the past.

Gérald Mossé

From 1993 to late 2001, Gérald Mossé was the principal rider for the horses belonging to the Aga Khan IV.

Hollywood Gold Cup top three finishers

This is a listing of the horses that finished in first, second, and third place (and the number of starters) in the Hollywood Gold Cup, an American Grade 1 race for three-year-olds and up at 1 1/4 miles (on dirt, 1938-2006 and the synthetic surface, 'Cushion Track', since 2007), held at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California.

Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth

The house remains to this day, but when the new M23 motorway bisected the property in 1971, Covey, himself not a young man, had little choice but to sell the property and disperse the horses.

Kentucky Oaks top three finishers

This is a listing of the horses that finished in either first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Kentucky Oaks, the first leg of the defacto American Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, an American Grade 1 race for three year-old fillies at 1-1/8 miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

Lee Mack

After working at the stable of racehorse trainer Ginger McCain in Southport for three days, he asked if he could ride one of the horses, to which the trainer agreed.

Lord Clifden

In the summer of 1865 he was one of the horses who paraded at the Great Metropolitan Horse Show at the Agricultural Hall in Islington.

Louis Gugy

One of the interested parties was a French cavalry officer, but Louis Gugy interceded before the purchase of one of the horses could go ahead, revealing to his father that the purchaser was none other than Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, the servant at the inn of Varennes who had recognised and betrayed King Louis XVI.

Mares of Diomedes

Both versions have eating make the horses calmer, and Heracles took the opportunity to bind their mouths shut, and easily took them back to King Eurystheus, who dedicated the horses to Hera.

Moses Cleaveland

Some journeyed by land with the horses and cattle, while the main body went in boats up the Mohawk, down the Oswego, along the shore of Lake Ontario, and up Niagara River, carrying their boats over the long portage of seven miles at the falls.

Nix Nought Nothing

In the Russian tale "Vasilissa the Wise and the Wate King", the heroine transforms the horses into Kissel and honey, and the enticed Water King gorges on them until he bursts.

No. 73

An extremely loose adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel, Ethel, Tony Deal (Nick Wilton) and Eazi (Tony Hippolyte) starred as the titular musketeers, Athos, Bathos and Pathos as well as every other character (though some of the horses were not portrayed by them).

Ordered Bell number

For instance, in horse racing, photo finishes have eliminated most but not all ties, called in this context dead heats, and the outcome of a race that may contain ties (including all the horses, not just the first three finishers) may be described using a weak ordering.

Phoolka

The Guru Har Rai had blessed him thus: You feel’eth hunger now, worry no more...your house shall be a very big Charity House ....donating and feeding many…….the horses of you Armies shall graze in grasslands spanning the area between the Yamuna and Sutlej .

Sable Island horse

The horses live only at Sable Island and at the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park on the mainland of Nova Scotia, with the latter herd descended from horses removed from Sable Island in the 1950s.

Speen, Buckinghamshire

Many of the horses that were injured when the IRA bombed the Royal Horse Guards in the early 1980s were brought here (Sefton being the most famous), and the stables have become a popular tourist attraction for animal lovers.

Spring Mountain Ranch State Park

Mountain Man Bill Williams, a member of the raiding party, brought his band of horses through Red Rock Canyon where he rested the horses from the hard trip across the desert.

Texas Revolution

To the disappointment of the Texans, the saddlebags contained only fodder for the horses; for this reason the battle was later known as the Grass Fight.

Valentín Ferraz y Barrau

There they collected the horses and supplies needed for the campaign, and proceeded to the front-line of the war zone to join the royal army of Alto Peru in its barracks Santiago de Cotagaita, on the basis of the European troops would, in 1817 form a squad of Grenadier Guards of 78 men commanded by Ferraz.

Vasily Shibanov

For a source Tolstoy used the fragment of Nikolay Karamzin’s History of the Russian State relating how "…Kurbsky by night clandestinely left his home, climbed over the city wall, found two of the horses his loyal servant prepared for him and safely reached Volmar, then under the Lithuanians".

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.