He has thrived on all he has gone through and looks the makings of a good little race horse.

It all has something to do with General Burnside and his horse ''.

These operations are compounding ( or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn ); transposing ( or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur ); augmenting ( as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented ); and diminishing ( as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished ).

The American influence through film has led to the localised adoption of terms such as bronco for the native brumby meaning wild horse, and cowboy for the native drover and stockman for a cattle or sheep herder, though such words are still overtly felt to be " Americanisms ".

It has been estimated that in England in the 18th century carrying bricks by horse and cart for ten miles ( 16 km ) over the poor roads then existing could more than double their price.

The IDF has never included horse cavalry since its establishment in 1922 ( other than a small mounted escort drawn from the Artillery Corps when required for ceremonial occasions ).

A cavalry horse involves considerable expense in breeding, training, feeding, and equipment, and has very little productive use except as a mode of transport.

The term " Charing Cross " for example ( a place in London ) has been used to mean " horse " since the mid-19th century but does not rhyme unless " cross " is pronounced to rhyme with " course ".

It is shown as a horse with the torso of a man in place of where the horse's head has to be, that is similar to a Greek centaur.

Besides its use as an explosive, gunpowder has been occasionally employed for other purposes ; after the Battle of Aspern-Essling ( 1809 ), the surgeon of the Napoleonic Army Larrey combated the lack of food for the wounded under his care by preparing a bouillon of horse meat seasoned with gunpowder for lack of salt.

The term " hobbyhorse " has been found in documented form in a 1557 payment confirmation for a " Hobby ~ horse " from Reading, England.

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.

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.

In her three-headed representations, discussed above, Hecate often has one or more animal heads, including cow, dog, boar, serpent and horse.

Aphrodite gives Paris a vision of Helen riding a horse, while Helen has a vision of Paris.

Linguistically, the association of horse ownership with social status extends back at least as far as ancient Greece, where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, like Hipparchus and Xanthippe ; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes ' Clouds has his grandfather's name with hipp-inserted to sound more aristocratic.

No horse since Apollo in 1882 has won the Derby without having raced at age two.

The island has a " fragile and unique ecosystem " with plants rarely found in Canada, such as wild hyacinth, yellow horse gentian ( Triosteum angustifolium ), and prickly pear cactus, as well as two endangered snakes, the blue racer and the Lake Erie water snake.

Contrary to the Western perception of possession, a Loa has no need to remain in the horse ( possessed ritualist ).

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

The sentry's saddled horse stood picketed nearby, having been kept handy in case of need.

The fact that Jess's horse had not been returned to its stall could indicate that Diane's information had been wrong, but Curt didn't interpret it this way.

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.

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.

As Tex, his horse and dog are very thirsty, Kalamakooya also makes a waterfall where there had been no water before and so when the town was built, it was named after Tex's feathers and the waterfalls.

Griffith's throat had been damaged by poison gas during World War I and his voice was a horse whisper, prompting Hawks to later state " I thought he ought to be great in talking pictures because of that voice.

In the 13th century, the term " hobyn " was used, meaning " small horse or pony ", and by 1816 the derivative, " hobby ", had been introduced into the vocabulary of an unknown number of English people.

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.

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

Prior to locomotives, the motive force for railroads had been generated by various lower-technology methods such as human power, horse power, gravity or stationary engines that drove cable systems.

Many of its products feature the Mobil symbol of a winged red horse, Pegasus, which has been a company trademark since its affiliation with Magnolia Petroleum Company in the 1930s.

The Przewalski's horse has been recently released back to the wild.

A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places, which typically has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, or motor vehicle.

They learn to like these so well that it isn't surprising to hear that one boy tried the oats he was feeding his horse at chore time.

He succeeded almost too well, because once she rose as if to charge, and he half wheeled his horse -- he was within fifty feet -- but she sank back.

Mail was commonly also used as horse armour for cataphracts and heavy cavalry as well as armour for the soldiers themselves.

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

" It was so large that the bulkiest man could walk through the eye of each horse, yet because of the extreme height of the foundation persons passing along on the ground below believe that the horses themselves as well as Hadrian are very very small.

* Hack ( horse ), an animal used for pleasure riding, as well as the verb form ( hacking, to hack ) for the activity

The horse was an appropriate symbol of Thessaly, a land of plains, which was well known for its horses.

Other NBC Sports duties that Albert held were play-by-play announcing for the NFL, college basketball, horse racing, boxing, NHL All-Star Games, and Major League Baseball, as well as hosting baseball studio and pre-game shows.

Even peasants, who did not share the bonds of kinship and culture, would often avoid killing a nobleman, valuing the high ransom that a live capture could bring, as well as the valuable horse, armour and equipment that came with him.

A well trained horse will carry its rider smoothly and swiftly to the ball and can account for 60 to 75 percent of the player's skill and net worth to his team.

A rough localization was attempted by reconstructing the names of plants and animals ( importantly the beech and the salmon ) as well as the culture and technology ( a Bronze Age culture centered on animal husbandry and having domesticated the horse ).

Royal knights were equipped in the same manner as their Gothic predecessors — braceplate, kite shield, a long sword ( designed to fight from the horse ) and as well as the javelins and spears, a Visigothic axe.

In Eastern Orthodox Christianity it is possible to find Icons of St. George riding on Black horse, as well, there are various examples in Russian Iconography, like the Icon in British Museum Collection.

His first-born child, probably a son, was born prematurely as a result of a horse riding accident suffered by Queen Mary of Hungary when she was well advanced in pregnancy.

Pliny the Elder mentions the oryx and an Indian ox ( perhaps a rhinoceros ) as one-horned beasts, as well as " a very fierce animal called the monoceros which has the head of the stag, the feet of the elephant, and the tail of the boar, while the rest of the body is like that of the horse ; it makes a deep lowing noise, and has a single black horn, which projects from the middle of its forehead, two cubits in length.

The title is a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of the pale horse is Death, and shows similarities to Eastwood's 1973 western High Plains Drifter in its themes of morality and justice as well as its exploration of the supernatural.

A machine drawn by a horse in a pair of shafts, sows two drills at a time and answers extremely well, where the ground is flat, and the drills properly made up.

They were about as fast as a horse and could survive well on the grazing found along the way, and worked well when trained.

Riders are now required to wear a safety vest ( body protector ) during cross-country, as well as an ASTM / SEI or ISO approved equestrian helmet equipped with a retention harness, which must be fastened while on the horse.

In the lower levels, it is possible for any breed of horse, if it has the talent for it, to do well in eventing.

Studies using DNA have been inconclusive, in part due to crossing domestic horses into the Przewalski's horse as well as the limited genetic variation present in the founder population of the Przewalski's horse.

These are the hunting and reindeer-breeding Evenks … and the horse and cattle pastoral Evenks as well as some farming Evenks ” ( 620 ).