He looks fat and happy... maybe a little smug, getting all the girls and all. :p:

He was a beauty.

Now there's a visual!!

No. We couldn't agree on the video rights.:blush:

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I've been to a number of ploughing competitions and found it quite astonishing how much attention to detail is shown by the competitors.

Advance a few feet, examine the results, make adjustments to plough or harness, advance another few feet, and so on...

That looks like a woman driving that white team.
Out in Amish country all work stops on Sunday, only the horses pulling the buggies are used. I've noticed the horses and mules used for working the farm are never more than a few feet from each other in a big pasture. They work together and spend their time off together.

Yes, it's another ploughing picture...

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Given that the location is in Scotland, it's odds on that they are Clydesdales, but the chap furthest from the camera has the Roman nose of a Shire. Not sure...

Smart man, use two right hand horses and two left hand horses, bound to plow straight. ;)

He looks to be going deep.

Ploughing.

Cough - coff
Rough - ruff
Ploughing - pluffing?

:p:Yep, that's all I got today. Dis m'hill.:p:

There's not much ploughing in Slough.

Or is it not much pluffing in Sluff?

Sometimes a chap gets confused.

That chap would be me. Most of the time.

:D

Numerous ceremonies and events are being held in commemoration of the end of the First World war and quite rightly they concentrate on the human cost of that conflict.

The part that animals, mostly horses, played has also been recognised.

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Animals in War

Western movies (cowboy flicks) have 98% brown horses. The hero or lead bad guy might ride white, black, or palomino.
They're missing out on so many possibilities of making movies more colorful.

Maybe the actors don't want to be upstaged...

Or they'll mess up the set design...

My favorite tv horse as a kid was Coco from The Big Valley. It could be because they had a real touching fair-well episode when the real horse died.

OMG, I'm in love. :biggrinlo

Nice Horsey.

What a magnificent beastie!

This Belgian and woman are an incredibly precise team...

Wow. So cool.

If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere...

Doin' it wrong.

1973 - Secretariat set a new Belmont Stakes record with a time of 2:24, breaking the existing American record for a mile and a half — 2:26:2 — by over two seconds in a sport where new records are usually measured in fifths of a second.
He won by 31 lengths, the largest margin of victory in Belmont history.

The announcer is great.

I wish one or another of the networks that cover NASCAR races would get a horse race announcer to cover the last few laps of the races on your shorter tracks. I think it would do more to add excitement than anything NASCAR could to the racing.

I'd like it anyway, and that's really who I'm concerned with.:D

I've seen that race before, but somehow did not recall it being a five horse race.

Well, it turned out to be a one horse race...

Didn't know whether to post this under "Dog" or "Horse", or start a new thread called "Liver Spots".

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Appalatian.

Geddit?

Good.

Appellation: Appalation

Both of you guys spelled Appalachian wrong.

I don;t know what you call it when you put two words together.
Appaloosa + Dalmatian = Appalatian

a portmanteau

Thank You Sir.

Appaloosa has nothing to do with it, appalachians are a Kentucky breed. Eastern Kentucky still has some wild ones... horses, wild horses, not the other Kentucky wild ones.:headshake

Are Appalachians also known as the Rocky Mountain horse?

No idea, never heard of them.

~Wiki

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I guess some horses don't like high octane mouthwash.

This guy has another vehicle with a trailer but it wouldn't start so he took this truck and loaded his highly trained
stockyard horse worth $15 grand and beat it for work at 70 mph.
The cops stopped him but claim there is nothing they could charge him with. Maybe excess stupidity?

Highly trained or scared stiff, you be the judge.

Re back window, it rolls down like the door windows do.

Butbutbut ya can see broken glass in the corner of the window.

I don't think so.

Window is not rolled down
Window is intact
https://www.google.com/amp/s/wnep.co...s-highway/amp/

Please to note the reins going through where the window used to be.

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Note, also, the clearness of the opening whereas ya can see the green/blue tinting of the other windows. The headrests are too visible for there to be glass there. I still think that's broken glass to the left of the headrest.


Now ain't arguing about this more fun than arguing about stupid ol politiks?:D

Oh, and did you notice the horse is being very careful not to lean right or left?;)

That's a reflection.

Then the real rein should be visible, and is not.

Also, no reflection of the horse.

yeah, watch the video

look at the reins

coming down from he horse

through the window hole

and into the cabin

there's no window

So the window "rolls*" down.

* we still say rolls even when they're electric.

edit ~Nope, I think that's about a 2000 Chevy/GMC and they were solid or sliders but no roll down.

Horses with passports? Nope they came like slaves...

It sure didn't take long for the Plains Indians to master horsemanship.

It's hard to believe there were no horses before the Europeans brought theirs. But then most healthy people could probably become pretty proficient in five years.


A herd of all white horses would be boring, the imperfections and markings of this herd make them interesting.



Wanna ride? Embiggen the sucker and watch out for the one with the black spot on his/her ass, it's a kicker.

Cheating I know.

https://albumcoverhalloffame.files.w...thhorses1s.jpg

No apologies, had to be done:

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I thought air cavalry meant helicopters...

With God as my witness, I thought air cavalry horses could fly...

Somebody guessed they are polo ponies. Sounded reasonable, polo players could afford that plane.