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In Norse religion, Asgard ( Old Norse: Ásgarðr ; meaning " Enclosure of the Æsir ") is one of the Nine Worlds and is the country or capital city of the Norse Gods surrounded by an incomplete wall attributed to a Hrimthurs riding the stallion Svaðilfari, according to Gylfaginning.
A related hybrid, the hinny, is a cross between a stallion and a jenny ( female donkey ).
The male parent of a horse, a stallion, is commonly known as the sire and the female parent, the mare, is called the dam.
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.
And by the stallion Svaðilfari, Loki is the mother — giving birth in the form of a mare — to 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.
The builder makes a single request ; that he may have help from his stallion Svaðilfari, and due to Loki's influence, this is allowed.
* The term " thoroughbred " is first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick.
The hybrid between a stallion and a jennet is a hinny, and is less common.
There is some evidence that about 6, 000 years ago, near the Dneiper River and the Don River, people were using bits on horses, as a stallion that was buried there shows teeth wear consistent with using a bit.
A stallion who has won many races may be put up to stud when he is retired.
In this, which is the earliest written account, Daphne is a mortal girl fond of hunting and determined to remain a virgin ; she is pursued by the lad Leucippos (" white stallion "), who assumes girl's outfits in order to join her band of huntresses.
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 ).
The builder makes a single request ; that he may have help from his stallion Svaðilfari, and due to Loki's influence, this is allowed.
He is a chestnut stallion, standing 16. 2 hands high, foaled at Garry and Mark Chittick's Waikato Stud in New Zealand.
It tells the story of Alec Ramsay, who is shipwrecked on a desert island, together with a wild Arabian stallion whom he befriends.
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.

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Only unhealthy stallions have their harems taken over, and even then the new stallion gradually takes over pushing the old one out without a fight.
They have found their modern niche as combined driving horses, a sport in which many, including the stallion Meinhold, compete internationally.
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 campus also has a successful Cleveland Bay breeding programme, their main stallion being home-bred Lindon Principle, whom two of the Queen's mares have been put in foal to.
This differs from other feral horse herds, some of which have only one stallion that mates with mares, while others have several stallions that sire foals.
The study suggested that the mutation was of relatively recent origin: the founder of the mutated gene may have been a stallion who was both the paternal grandfather and maternal great grandfather of the affected foal, as all the ponies who tested positive for the mutation are direct descendants of this stallion.
Notable winners and shortlisted works have inspired several well-known Australian films from original novels, including The Silver Brumby series, a collection by Elyne Mitchell which recount the life and adventures of Thowra, a Snowy Mountains brumby stallion ; Storm Boy ( 1964 ), by Colin Thiele, about a boy and his pelican and the relationships he has with his father, the pelican, and an outcast Aboriginal man called Fingerbone ; the Sydney based Victorian era time travel adventure Playing Beatie Bow ( 1980 ) by Ruth Park ; and, for older children and mature readers, Melina Marchetta's 1993 novel about a Sydney high school girl Looking for Alibrandi.
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.
The first Turkoman recorded in England is said by Marvin to have been a stallion brought over by Colonel Valentine Baker, who wished to see it used to breed with the English Thoroughbred.
Unbridled is also the last stallion to have sired at least one winner in each of the American Triple Crown races ( first for each listed ): Grindstone, Kentucky Derby, 1996 ; Red Bullet, Preakness Stakes, 2000 ; and Empire Maker, Belmont Stakes, 2003.

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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.
There has been some criticism of Secretariat as a stallion, due in part to his perceived inability to produce male offspring of his same caliber.
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 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.
In 2006, another Sorraia stallion was imported to Canada where a Sorraia Mustang Preserve has been established on Manitoulin Island in Ontario.
The population also has a number of tobiano horses from the influence of the approved stallion Samber, though a second tobiano stallion has not been approved since.
* In the Thoroughbred breeding industry, a pensioner is a stallion that has been retired from stud duty due to declining fertility ( usually related to age ).
Having been at stud since 1993, he has sired several nice horses including Gitane du Brumans II, Gatsby Vandrin, Gonzague du Rouet, Gershwin de Reis, Balou Grande Z ( winner of the 30-day stallion test in 2002 at Neustadt / Dosse ) and Balou du Rouet.
Kunama, having been trained in bushcraft by both Thowra and Boon Boon, is cautious and wary of men, but not even this caution is enough to keep her in Thowra's Hidden Valley when her interest is captured by a young, spirited black stallion with an unusual splash of white on his flank, named Tambo, who is the son of Storm and the racehorse ' Highland Lass.

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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.
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.

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Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.
The mare welcomes the stallion by lowering her rear and lifting her tail.
Mares signal estrus and ovulation by urination in the presence of a stallion, raising the tail and revealing the vulva.
The first stanza notes that Loki produced " the wolf " with the jötunn Angrboða, that Loki himself gave birth to the horse Sleipnir by the stallion Svaðilfari, and that Loki ( referred to as the " brother of Býleistr ") thirdly gave birth to " the worst of all marvels ".
When attacked by packs of hyenas or wild dogs a zebra group will huddle together with the foals in the middle while the stallion tries to ward them off.
Plains and mountain zebra foals are protected by their mothers, as well as the head stallion and the other mares in their group.
His thoroughbred stallion died within a few days after a bite from a Tsetse fly, many of his carriers deserted and the rest were decimated by tropical diseases.
They will tolerate foals to a certain extent, but because of their aggressive stallion nature, they are generally annoyed by the energetic exuberance of foals, and may hurt or even kill foals.
The poet expresses Buffalo Bill's showmanship by describing his " watersmooth-silver / stallion ", and using a staccato beat for the quick shooting of clay pigeons.
According to this legend, romanticised by Alexander Pushkin in his celebrated ballad " The Song of the Wise Oleg ," it was prophesied by the pagan priests that Oleg would take death from his stallion.
The Darley Arabian stallion painting by John Wootton
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.
Dan Patch was a brown American bred Standardbred stallion sired by Joe Patchen, his dam Zelica was by Wilkesberry.
Compared to his previous races, it was an unremarkable performance for the stallion ( Seabiscuit was third, bested by two lengths ), but it was an amazing comeback for him and his jockey.
As old East Slavic chronicles say it was prophesied by the pagan priests that Oleg would take death from his stallion.
When challenged, the stallion would issue a warning to the invader by rubbing nose or shoulder with him.
Plains zebra foals are protected by their mother as well as the head stallion and the other mares in their group.

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