In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles limited Germany's army to 100, 000 troops and so the breed's focus was again turned to producing horses suitable to farm duties.

Dressage horses are turned out to a high standard.

Event horses are turned out similarly to dressage horses, with the legs and face ( muzzle, jaw, sides of ears, bridle path ) neatly clipped.

The rout of the Cumans turned out to be a feigned rout, for when the Crusaders wanted to return to the camp, the Cumans turned around and began to shoot at them, wounding a good many of their horses.

Now out of control, the horses turned to the right when confronted by a stone wall causing the shooting brake to roll completely, catapulting the actors into a pile of scaffolding that had been stacked next to the wall.

" Saying these words, Nestor turned the horses back.

The role of Sundance was then offered to Jack Lemmon, whose production company, JML, had produced the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke starring Newman .. Lemmon, however, turned down the role ; he did not like riding horses, and he also felt he had already played too many aspects of the Sundance Kid's character before.

Smith's teamsters led teams of horses deep into his mine, turned the team, loaded the wagon and then drove the team to the river bank to load the coal into canal boats.

Town residents had free range on the section and their milk cows and horses and mules were turned loose to graze.

Events turned bloody on February 18, 1878, when Tunstall was spotted while driving a herd of nine horses towards Lincoln and murdered by William Morton, Jesse Evans, Tom Hill, Frank Baker and Sheriff William J. Brady of Lincoln County — all members of a posse serving the House, sent to attack McSween's holdings.

Modern veterinary techniques make gelding of even a somewhat elderly stallion a fairly low-risk procedure, and the horse then has the benefit of being able to be turned out safely with other horses and allowed to live a less restricted and isolated life than was allowed for a stallion.

All the horses or chariots ran on one track towards the east, then turned around the embolon and headed back west.

Lent sees the horses as a metaphor for human ( dis ) connectedness: “ hooves thundering through the reader ’ s veins, racing over the planet with a passion that is out of us, sometimes turned against itself, sadly ”.

" On 21 September 2009, The Guardian was forced to publish an admission that his article " repeated a myth of the second world war, fostered by Nazi propagandists, when it said that Polish lancers turned their horses to face Hitler's panzers.

In the late winter and spring they were limited in mobility until the grass turned green and their horses recovered from the severe winters of the northern Great Plains.

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Some areas were cleared for cultivation from the Bronze Age onwards ; the poor quality of the soil in the New Forest meant that the cleared areas turned into heathland " waste ", which may have been used even then as grazing-land for horses.

However, influenced by the director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Nuremberg and later by Johann Rugendas, he turned towards painting – mainly battlefields and horses.

Before he turned twenty he went to Paris to study in veterinary school to make himself fully acquainted with the anatomy of horses and other animals.

On 15 May the country was so dry the expedition turned south to save the horses.

For this offense, she is turned into an eejit who can only fetch horses for Matt ( who pities her, despite her cruel treatment of him ).

David's first love in life was raising horses, which turned out to be very profitable for him.

The horses ' heads were turned towards ' the city.

The two horses broke from the yard, from the circle of light cast by the lamp still burning in the house, into the darkness.

The two men whipped their horses into town and flung themselves up the steps of the saloon, crying their intelligence.

A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.

On Sundays he would walk miles into the campagna to visit with them, and in particular to see their horses.

At this moment, Loveless and Means arrived, crashing through the undergrowth with their horses, and distracted her, and she ran off a short distance and jumped into a crevice between two rocks.

They mounted their horses and rode off into the hills.

The film ends with Bart killing Lamarr by shooting him in the groin at the " premiere " of Blazing Saddles outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, saving the town, and then joining Jim inside the theatre to view the end of the movie, persuading people of all colors and creeds to live in harmony, before they hand in their horses and ride off ( in a limousine ) into the sunset.

Overkirk's squadrons – 48 Dutch, supported on their left by 21 Danish – steadily advanced towards the enemy ( taking care not to prematurely tire the horses ), before breaking into a trot to gain the impetus for their charge.

Food, horses and other goods flooded into the city, and thousands of slaves from West Africa were transported to the island to work on the undermanned sugar plantations.

With the arrival of the Europeans the Spaniards brought the horses, mules and donkey ( which developed into the Paso Fino ) used by them in ranching duties later in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

First, because motorised vehicles were in short supply, the Poles used horses to pull anti-tank weapons into position.

In tribute to Jones, Lingfield Park announced that the first two races on the card for 3 March 2012 would be renamed the " Hey Hey We're The Monkees Handicap " and the " In Memory of Davy Jones Selling Stakes " with successful horses in those races accompanied into the Winners ' Enclosure by some of The Monkees ' biggest hits.

The Turks, having seized the summit of the mountain, and the French ( both soldiers and pilgrims ) having been taken by surprise, there was little hope of escape: those who tried were caught and killed, and many men, horses and baggage were cast into the canyon below the ridge.

Russian chronicles mention prince Oleg of Novgorod use kites during the siege of Constantinople in 906 A. D .: " and he crafted horses and men of paper, armed and gilded, and lifted them into the air over the city ; the Greeks saw them and feared ".

In the mid 19th century Canada, marsh horseshoes kept horses from sinking into the soft intertidal mud during dike-building.

Once while he was asleep there, his horses suddenly disappeared, and when he woke and wandered about in search of them, he came into the country of Hylaea.

Horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories based on general temperament: spirited " hot bloods " with speed and endurance ; " cold bloods ," such as draft horses and some ponies, suitable for slow, heavy work ; and " warmbloods ," developed from crosses between hot bloods and cold bloods, often focusing on creating breeds for specific riding purposes, particularly in Europe.

As the 8th century progressed into the Carolingian Age, the Franks were generally on the attack, and larger numbers of warriors took to their horses to ride with the Emperor in his wide-ranging campaigns of conquest.

This could then be subdivided into shorter units like the foot, hand ( which at 4 inches is still used today for expressing the height of horses ) or finger, or added together to make longer units like the stride.

However, until a significant break in the enemy infantry lines arose, the cavalry could not be used to much effect against infantry since horses are not easily harried into a wall of pikemen.

The cost of their armor, horses, and weapons was great ; this, among other things, helped gradually transform the knight, at least in western Europe, into a distinct social class separate from other warriors.

She spurned his advances, turning herself into a mare so that she could hide in a herd of horses ; he saw through the deception and became a stallion and captured her.

Sailors prayed to Poseidon for a safe voyage, sometimes drowning horses as a sacrifice ; in this way, according to a fragmentary papyrus, Alexander the Great paused at the Syrian seashore before the climactic battle of Issus, and resorted to prayers, " invoking Poseidon the sea-god, for whom he ordered a four-horse chariot to be cast into the waves.

At this time, in horses, the foal will enter into the herd proper, later, young stallions are often chased off and join bachelor herds.

During the 16th century, the Spaniards brought horses with them, and inadvertently reintroduced horses back into North America.