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Learning from Mipps ( who, contrary to Syn's orders, had become a leader of the smugglers ) that certain townsfolk had been ambushed and captured during a smuggling run, Syn purchased the great black stallion Gehenna from gypsies and raced to their rescue.
The city's current name comes from a stallion that was named after the Coburg district of Bavaria, Germany, from whence the horse had been imported.
The thieves, who had no prior experience with the nervous, highly-strung nature of a thoroughbred stallion, were unable to handle him.
Fiery on the racetrack, Ribot developed a dangerous temperament and had to be handled by the strongest stallion groom at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, where he stood at stud.
In April 1364 the Reeve had to make provision for a grey courser which was sent to cover the mares at Risborough and in July to pay £ 10. 10s for a black stallion for the same purpose.
He had some success as a stallion but had little opportunity to distinguish himself as he died of thrombosis in 1970.
He speculated that someone had tied the end of a rope around Alydar's leg and attached the other end of the rope to a truck that could easily have been driven into the stallion barn.
The female seemed relieved that their " task " was over, and Boas himself said that he felt angered by the situation, because he felt as though he had been little more than " a good stallion " for the humanoids.
The scout who had captured his mount ( a swift-footed black stallion belonging to the HBCo ) had galloped around the prairie with the rope attached to his saddle pommel, trailing the body in the grass in circles, the trails of which were still visible.
Later still, she went to Morocco, where she travelled among the Berbers and had to use a ladder to mount her black stallion, a gift from the Sultan.
Menumorut's name ( as he was called by the Hungarians because he had concubines ) is composed of two parts: its first part ( menu ) may have originated either from the Hungarian word for stallion ( as the anonymous writer of the Gesta suggests ) or from the Bulgar-Turkic word meaning “ great ” ( men ); his name ’ s second part ( morut ) is the ancient Hungarian name of the Moravians.
As private breeders, mare and stallion owners had and retain greater freedom in purchasing breeding stock, and as a result Oldenburg and Ostfriesen horses were exported far and wide.
Tommaso Buscetta, the Mafia turncoat who had cooperated with Falcone ’ s investigations, remembered Giovanni Brusca as " a wild stallion but a great leader.
She and Shrek then turn back into ogres, and Donkey ( who had turned into a white stallion ) turns back into a donkey.
Babamist was a stallion that had a profound impact on the American breeding industry, especially in the sport of eventing.

stallion and mare
The mare began to tire and Clayton felt the spray of snow from the hoofs of Gavin's stallion.
The male parent of a horse, a stallion, is commonly known as the sire and the female parent, the mare, is called the dam.
) Though many horse owners may simply breed a family mare to a local stallion in order to produce a companion animal, most professional breeders use selective breeding to produce individuals of a given phenotype, or breed.
The mare welcomes the stallion by lowering her rear and lifting her tail.
The estrous cycle ( also spelled oestrous ) controls when a mare is sexually receptive toward a stallion, and helps to physically prepare the mare for conception.
* Estrus, or Follicular, phase: 5 – 7 days in length, when the mare is sexually receptive to a stallion.
* Diestrus, or Luteal, phase: 14 – 15 days in length, the mare is not sexually receptive to the stallion.
Additionally, it causes behavioral changes in the mare, making her more receptive toward the stallion, and causes physical changes in the cervix, uterus, and vagina to prepare the mare for conception ( see above ).
* Progesterone: prevents conception and decreases sexual receptibility of the mare to the stallion.
A stallion, approaching with a high head, will usually nicker, nip and nudge the mare, as well as sniff her urine to determine her readiness for mating.
And by the stallion Svaðilfari, Loki is the mother — giving birth in the form of a mareto the eight-legged horse Sleipnir.
The illuminating exception is the archaic and localised myth of the stallion Poseidon and mare Demeter at Phigalia in isolated and conservative Arcadia, noted by Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ) as having fallen into desuetude ; the violated Demeter was Demeter Erinys.
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.
Horses organize themselves into small bands with a dominant mare at the top of the pecking order, as well as a resident stallion.
That night, the builder drove out to fetch stone with his stallion Svaðilfari, and out from a wood ran a mare.
* Mating of animals, e. g. a stallion covers a mare
In Norse mythology, Svaðilfari ( Old Norse " unlucky traveler ") is a stallion that fathered the eight-legged horse Sleipnir with Loki ( in the form of a mare ).
That night, the builder drove out to fetch stone with his stallion Svaðilfari, and out from a wood ran a mare.
In China in 1981, a hinny mare proved fertile with a donkey stallion.
In Morocco in 2003, a mule mare bred to a donkey stallion produced a male foal ; DNA testing revealed the foal has a mixed karyotype hybrid like the Chinese hinny offspring, Dragon Foal.
In one tale, Demeter transformed herself into a mare to escape Poseidon, but Poseidon counter-transformed himself into a stallion to pursue her, and succeeded in the rape.
In 1802 the stallion, Northumberland, and an English mare were imported, followed shortly thereafter by Washington, a stallion from America.

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He showed a remarkable talent for matching bloodlines from an early age and soon gained a reputation as an up and coming stallion master.

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In the summer of 1946, Alec Ramsay ( Kelly Reno ) is traveling aboard the steamer Drake off the coast of North Africa, when he sees a wild black stallion being heavily restrained by ropes leading to his halter and forced into a makeshift stable on the ship.
His wife, Paula, is a vivacious, athletic, and sexually self-aware woman ( in one scene, she rides a stallion into a " swimming tank ," emerging in " a white silken slip of a bathing suit that molded to her form like a marble-carven veiling of drapery.
Other horse twins are: Greek, Dioskuri ( Polydeukes and Kastor ); borrowed into Latin as Castor and Pollux ; Irish, the twins of Macha ; Old English, Hengist and Horsa ( both words mean ' stallion '), and possibly Old Norse Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse born of Loki ; Slavic Lel and Polel ; possibly Christianized in Albanian as Sts.
Coifi mounted a stallion and rode from the king's council ( which according to local tradition was held at the royal summer encampment at Londsborough ), to the Great temple of Woden at Goodmanham where he cast a spear into the altar before burning the temple to the ground, as the people watched and thought him mad.
It is an extremely powerful animal ; in one case, a one-tonne Suffolk stallion known to haul over two tonnes was pulled into water to its demise by a large male crocodile.
It is also thought that in the 1960s Nicholas Koreneff released an Arabian stallion into the Argo Valley region.
He and Shrek ended up drinking the " Happily Ever After " potion from the Fairy Godmother's workshop and while Shrek transformed into a human, Donkey became a magnificently bred and handsome white stallion ( albeit with the same buck teeth and voice, and on the bottle it says that it's not for those with nervous disorders.
In The Horse and his Boy, ( the events of which all occur during the reign of the four Pevensie children in Narnia, an era which begins and ends in the last chapter of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ), Hwin and Aravis fall into company with the talking stallion, Bree, to whom Hwin is distantly related, and the boy Shasta.
On their journey north to freedom in Narnia, they fall into company with the talking stallion, Bree, and the boy Shasta.
Kelly imported the first Marwari horse into the United States in 2000 ; the first Marwari was exported to Europe in 2006, when a stallion was given to the French Living Museum of the Horse.
He first came into prominence-just after Bim-for directing and producing White Mane ( 1953 ), an award winning short film that tells a fable of how a young boy befriends an untamable wild white stallion in the marshes of Camargue ( the Petite Camargue ).
She grows into a lovely mare with Thowra surprised at how beautiful she's become and the black stallion stopping in his tracks when he saw her.
Messenger ( foaled 1780 ) was an English Thoroughbred stallion bred by a John Pratt and imported into the newly formed United States of America just after the American Revolution.

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