Here's similar, though less drastic, example from real life: There once was a Quarter
Horse stallion named Impressive.
It is that well - known expertise that has brought Tommy Bradbury, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and his prized Quarter
Horse stallion, Frenchmans Maximum, to Auburn for the last four years.
Horses included an unvaccinated Standardbred mare (age, clinical signs, and outcome unknown at this time) from Taylor County; a 3 - year - old unvaccinated Quarter
Horse stallion from Clark County found unable to rise and which died shortly after he was sampled on September 14; and a 5 - year - old Quarter Horse mare from Chippewa County found lethargic in the morning of September 17.
Not exact matches
Interestingly enough, when wild
horses are on the move, the lead
stallion is in the rear!
For example, we now own some 90
horses, the majority of them homebred, and we have shares in
stallion syndicates [last count: 21 shares in 13
stallions].
Says LeRoy Jolley, trainer of 1980 Kentucky Derby - winning filly Genuine Risk, «The difference between the two sexes as far as
horse racing goes is that a filly only has to win one major stakes race in her life [to demonstrate exceptional breeding potential], whereas a colt, to be valuable as a
stallion, has to be a top - rated performer almost every race of his life.
That's like comparing a
stallion race
horse to a seaside Donkey??? They are a different beast all together!?
Back in the old days, when the Whitneys and the Guggenheims and the Vanderbilts ruled the game, they looked beyond mere pedigree in breeding
horses and actively sought to produce the soundest as well as the fastest
horse, mating
stallions to marcs with the view toward canceling out each other's physical defects.
Training
horses and handling
stallions was part of her daily chores.
Specifically, they found that in warmblood
horses, which are bred for equestrian sport, mares exposed to
stallions with dissimilar MHC alleles were more likely to get pregnant than those exposed to MHC - similar males.
It is thought that these processes could have further use in breeds under threat of extinction and for valued
horses that have died or in cases where mares or
stallions have specific fertility problems.
Professor Caroline Argo from the University of Surrey, who was the academic lead for the project adds: «At the moment, we can freeze
stallion sperm reliably but not
horse eggs or embryos.
The male parent of a
horse, a
stallion, is commonly known as the sire and the female parent, the mare, is called the dam.
DADDY ISSUE Genetic analysis of Y chromosomes from modern
stallions, such as this Lipizzan
horse named Conversano Sessana, helped scientists trace the sires of all modern
stallions back 700 years to Arabian and Turkoman
stallions.
Using genetic analyses of more than 50
horse breeds, along with the pedigrees of three
stallions that founded English Thoroughbreds, researchers traced the Y chromosomes of modern
horses back hundreds of years.
Earlier studies had proposed that Y chromosome diversity is limited because only a few
stallions were tamed and bred into domestic
horses about 5,500 years ago.
Apart from a few private Northern European haplotypes, all modern
horse breeds included in the study clustered into a roughly 700 - year - old haplogroup, transmitted to Europe by the import of Oriental
stallions, they report.
«Our data therefore illuminate the enormous impact modern
horse breeding strategies — characterized by strong selection of males and the import of Oriental
stallions — during the past few hundred years had on Y chromosome diversity.»
«Most modern
horses are descendants of recently imported Oriental
stallions.»
It had been difficult to reconstruct the history of
stallions before because there is extremely low diversity in the Y chromosomes of modern
horses to start.
The mares refused his attentions and repeatedly aided one another by kicking and biting the
stallion as he tried to mate, Berger observed in Wild
Horses of the Great Basin.
While the young
stallion waited above, the rest of the
horses stood on a small ledge and drank.
In the
horse world, mares seem to provide the social glue to the herd — a job once attributed to
stallions.
My best friend is also on a kick with Ashwagandha, which is an Ayurvedic herb, in Sanskrit Ashwagandha translates to the «smell of a
horse,» and is traditionally believed to impart the energy and vigor of a
stallion to those who use it.
Find exceptional
horses for sale, ponies for sale and
stallions at stud as well as
horse riders, trainers, breeders, race trainers, livery yards and competition yards.
I don't want a fairytale love, because trying to climb onto a giant white
stallion horse would limit my clothing options.
Rode
horses for years & never owned one until an amazing registered Arabian
Stallion was about to go to auction.
I am a tall 6» 4» Cowboy for now I have a steel
stallion but seek a skinny cowgirl with
horses and a farm that needs me as her other, you meet me at that waffle house on 41a Hwy across from Walmart and next to Wendy's it was Friday evening and you had your cowgirlhat on and saw my cowboyhat with...
I train
horses, mares and
stallions — I can train you.
Horses groomed for Hollywood stardom We go inside the British stables that trained the stunt
stallions for Spielberg's War
Horse film.
The black
stallion is about a boy and
horse that gets stuck on a far away island.
A boozing Hollywood director buys a white
stallion belonging to Pepe's boss and the determined ranch hand decides to take off for Hollywood to get the
horse back.
First Gitty finds a porcelain black
stallion in an abandoned house nearby, in the next moment we see the ram - headed woman riding a black
horse through the open door, later, Gitty buys a chess set at an estate sale, which is conveniently missing a black knight piece and the list goes on and on.
Albert takes Joey on as his
horse and friend, training him to be able to save his father from defaulting on his mortgage to their landlord... but against all odds the
stallion does it.
Kelly Reno rides a
horse in Carroll Ballard's 1979 hit «The Black
Stallion,» newlyCriterion Collection
But, if there was an award for animal performers, the two
horses that handled the bulk of Black's onscreen time deserved it: one of The Black
Stallion's most famous scenes — where Alec befriends the wild
horse in a long, single take — is an incredible exchange that probably would have been lauded were it between two adult, human actors, let alone a little boy and an animal.
One thing The Black
Stallion «s Carroll Ballard didn't need to worry about was behavioral reticence on the part of his principals (boy and
horse).
Deschanelâ $ ™ s instincts seem those of the commercially astute still - photographer, and one consequence of this is that The Black
Stallion is less a movie than a huge coffeetable book full of cutely composed shots of rock formations, dripping leaves, sun - drenched beaches, galloping
horses, and children in â $ œsensitiveâ $ poses.
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Join us in celebrating the excitement and adventures of my father's famous wild
horse, «The Black
Stallion»!
And watching this magnificent
stallion run unfettered along the beach with his agile rider is a scene guaranteed to capture the imagination of young and old
horse lovers alike.
His school story, started on his the kitchen table, carried us around the world by a
stallion that the New York Times called ``... about the most famous
horse of the century.»
I like Desormeaux and their
horse (did you know the Black
Stallion is Kent Desormeaux's favorite!)
There he meets a tempestuous
Stallion, and he tries to become friends with it by offering the
horse some sugar cubes.
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The screenwriter for this film also penned the script for Spirit:
Stallion of the Cimarron, which tells a Wild West story from a
horse's perspective.
Kelly Reno, the young star of The Black
Stallion, returns as Alex Ramsey, living stateside with his widowed mom (Teri Garr) and his magnificent
horse, the Black.
«Don't expect any Black
Stallion magic from Lean On Pete's shatteringly sad boy - and - his -
horse story» AV Club «A boy, a
horse, a great escape and a bucket of tears» NY Times «Lean on Pete is the ugly - cry event of the spring» Slate
10:45 pm — TCM — The Black
Stallion I wouldn't dare to guess how many times I saw this movie as a
horse - crazy kid, but I would dare argue that its central section with its almost total lack of dialogue as Alec and The Black get to know each other while shipwrecked on a deserted island is still among my favorite sections in any family movie.
Also note the great Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark on Monday (RIP Blake Edwards), John Ford's Cavalry trilogy plus classic western Rio Bravo on Wednesday, a double feature of
horse - centric family features in National Velvet and The Black
Stallion on Thursday, plus a whole string of classic Disney live - action family films on Sunday, including Old Yeller, Swiss Family Robinson, and The Parent Trap.