One wrote: `` ( I am so hungry ) I could eat a rider off his horse & snap at the stirups ''.

* 1949 – Ann Romney, American horse rider, wife of Mitt Romney

* 1979 – Laurentia Tan, Singaporean-Paralympic horse rider

` Abdu ’ l-Bahá also took an interest in the art of horse riding and, as he grew, became a renowned rider.

A carbine was typically no longer than a sheathed sabre, both arranged to hang with their tops clear of the rider ’ s elbows and bottoms clear of the horse ’ s legs.

The gun sport of Cowboy Mounted Shooting challenges the horse and rider to race through a designated course while firing at and breaking balloon targets several feet away with blank ammunition.

Saddles are seats for the rider, fastened to the horse's back by means of a girth ( English-style riding ), known as a cinch in the Western US, a wide strap that goes around the horse at a point about four inches behind the forelegs.

It is important that the saddle be comfortable for both the rider and the horse as an improperly fitting saddle may create pressure points on the horse's back muscle ( Latissimus dorsi ) and cause the horse pain and can lead to the horse, rider, or both getting injured.

If a rider is thrown from a horse but has a foot caught in the stirrup, they could be dragged if the horse runs away.

The two bits allow the rider to have very precise control of the horse.

Reins are the means by which a horse rider or driver communicates directional commands to the horse's head.

Various styles can be used as a control measure, to prevent the horse from avoiding rider commands by raising its head out of position ; or as a safety measure to keep the horse from tossing its head high or hard enough to smack its rider in the face.

* Running martingale: This design adds leverage to a bit and features a split fork beginning at the chest with a ring on each side of the fork through which the reins pass, enabling the rider to more easily keep the horse under control, but also allowing the horse freedom of movement when needed.

Fitted correctly, the running martingale only controls how high the horse carries its head when the rider tightens the reins.

Sometimes a running martingale may be adjusted at a greater or lesser length depending on the needs of the horse and rider.

There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack.

It is known that Morse did associate with a group of itinerant horse traders who made their headquarters at Westport, a town not far from Fall River.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

" 19: 14 Revelation continues: " I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse and against his army.

A well-known legend attached to the site concerns a wealthy hunter, Childe, who became lost in a snow storm and supposedly died there despite disembowelling his horse and climbing into its body for protection.

cheval ' horse ') or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback.

The cavalry in the early Roman Republic remained the preserve of the wealthy landed class known as the equites — men who could afford the expense of maintaining a horse in addition to arms and armor heavier than those of the common legions.

Caligula, a man who could not swim, then proceeded to ride his favorite horse, Incitatus, across, wearing the breastplate of Alexander the Great.

Robert Graves ( relying on the work of Georges Dumezil argued for tracing the centaurs back to the Indian gandharva ), speculated that the centaurs were a dimly remembered, pre-Hellenic fraternal earth cult who had the horse as a totem.

He spends the night holding vigil over his armor, where he becomes involved in a fight with muleteers who try to remove his armor from the horse trough so that they can water their mules.

The word dragoon originally meant mounted infantry, who were trained in horse riding as well as infantry fighting skills.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

In Greek mythology, one myth associates Equuleus with the foal Celeris ( meaning " swiftness " or " speed "), who was the offspring or brother of the winged horse Pegasus.

Yale was also notorious for arresting and trying Indians on his own private authority, including the hanging of a stable boy who had absconded with a Company horse.

Some people who shoe horses are untrained or unskilled, and likely to do more harm than good for the horse.

In Norse mythology, Heimdallr is a god who possesses the resounding horn Gjallarhorn, owns the golden-maned horse Gulltoppr, has gold teeth, and is the son of Nine Mothers.

An early example of people who practiced selective horse breeding were the Bedouin, who had a reputation for careful breeding practices, keeping extensive pedigrees of their Arabian horses and placing great value upon pure bloodlines.

Open stud books exist for horse breeds that either have not yet developed a rigorously defined standard phenotype, or for breeds that register animals who conform to an ideal via the process of passing a studbook selection process.

On his way back to Naupactus, Temenus fell in with Oxylus, an Aetolian, who had lost one eye, riding on a horse ( thus making up the three eyes ) and immediately pressed him into his service.

It is not in the record, but he must have galloped his horse at Peach Tree Creek when he brought up Ward's guns to save Newton's crumbling line.

I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.

Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.

Villeroi had given his personal attention to that wing and strengthened it with large bodies of horse and foot that ought to have been taking part in the decisive struggle south of Ramillies.

Most Chinese until recently have avoided milk, partly because pasturage for milk producers in a monsoon rice ecology is not economic, partly because milk products became negatively associated with horse riding, milk drinking nomadic tribes.

In the 1978 to present Afghan Civil War period there have been several instances of horse mounted combat.

In the wake of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, there have been calls to rebuild the army horse inventory for disaster relief in difficult terrain.

Apes have been observed eating horse feces for the salt content.

The last horse was observed in 1995, and by 2005, just two cats were thought to have survived an island-wide eradication program.

Etymologically it is related to Avestan √ dar-(" to hold "), Old Persian √ dar-(" to hold, have "), Latin frēnum (" rein, horse tack "), Lithuanian derė ́ ti (" to be suited, fit "), Lithuanian dermė ( agreement ), darna (" harmony ") and Old Church Slavonic drъžati (" to hold, possess ").

Many changes brought about by domestication of the horse have led to a need for shoes for number of reasons.

Proponents of this idea, also known as the barefoot horse movement, argue that with proper care, horses may never need shoes at any time once they have been properly transitioned.

Most of the warmblood breeds used in sport horse disciplines, have open stud books to varying degrees.

In the horse breeding industry, the term " half-brother " or " half-sister " only describes horses which have the same dam, but different sires.

Leverage bits have shanks coming off the mouthpiece to create leverage that applies pressure to the poll, chin groove and mouth of the horse are in the category of curb bits.

A hybrid type, known as a " brollar ", increases the bearing area of the breastcollar around the shoulder of the horse, but does not have rigid hames.

A harness that is used to support shafts, such as on a cart pulled by a single horse, will also have a saddle attached to the harness to help the horse support the shafts and breeching to brake the forward motion of the vehicle, especially when stopping or moving downhill.

Horses guiding vehicles by means of a pole, such as two-horse teams pulling a wagon, a hay-mower, or a dray, will have pole-straps attached to the lower part of the horse collar.

Martin Litchfield West comments that the horse heads may have been remnants of pagan religious practices in the area.

We have already seen how its embedment in Proto-Indo-European society lies not just in its lexical reconstruction but also in the proliferation of personal names which contain ' horse ' as an element among the various Indo-European peoples.

I thought my horse was about to die, and would have sprung from his back had a minute more elapsed ; but as that instant all the shrubs and trees began to move from their very roots, the ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled water of a lake, and I became bewildered in my ideas, as I too plainly discovered, that all this awful commotion was the result of an earthquake.

The steep mountains and lack of roads have caused upland ethnic groups to rely entirely on pack baskets and horse packing for transportation.