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Events Horse Happenings Western

History of the NFR

The National Finals Rodeo (NFR), known popularly as the “super bowl of rodeo,” is a championship event held annually by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA).

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Horse Happenings Western

Cutting

  Cutting horses have been doing their job without fanfare from the earliest days of European settlement in North America.  “Cutting” is the act of separating a cow from the herd for vaccinating, castrating, and sorting.

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Fashion Horse Happenings

Hermes

  With the rise of the automobile, the train and modern vehicles in general, the horse has lost its place as the premier working animal in much of the Western World.

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Equestrian Destinations Events Horse Happenings Travel

The International Horse Complex

Just completed in 2010, the Pôle International du Cheval in Deauville, Normandy, France is a world-class equestrian facility. Deauville, the horse-hot spot of France, can now further its prestigious equestrian tradition via its multiple facilities and specialized accommodations for horses and riders.

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Arts & Collectibles English Horse Happenings Western

Man and Horse

Round-hoof’d, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, broad breast, full eye,
small head and nostril wide, high crest, short ears, straight legs and passing
strong, thin mane, thick mane, broad buttock, tender hide: look, what a horse
should have he did mot lack, save a proud rider on so proud a back.

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

Nothing is more marvelous than sitting at a little table in the gathering dusk in the Piazza di San Marco, the guest of the six golden-bronze horses prancing away-to paradise. Then you know you are in the presence of the most immaculately beautiful creatures on the earth.

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Horse Happenings TV & Film

Western Movies

The Western genre is set in the American West (trans-Mississippi including Mexico and Canada) during the time period from 1803 to 1915, though the end of the American Civil War in 1865 to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 is more common.

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Entertainment Horse Happenings TV & Film

How General Patton and Some Unlikely Allies Saved the Prized Lipizzaner Stallions

May 7, 1945, was an important day by any measure.

For Gen. George S. Patton, it started early, with a call just after 4 a.m. from Gen. Omar Bradley, who said, “Ike just called me, George. The Germans have surrendered.” This was mixed news to Patton, who was convinced the war was ending too soon, leaving the Russians as a future threat and, in any case, leaving Patton, a man who lived to fight, without a war. “Peace is going to be hell on me,” he had complained to his wife, Beatrice, four days earlier.