Enrique IV of Castile - la gineta & la brida

 Salvete Omnes,

long time ago I copied the image of Enrique (Henry) of Castilla (Castile), as his mounted image was picture perfect cavalier riding la gineta or in the Spanish Moorish fashion, with short, wide stirrups and long lance.
Looking at the images of Enrique I came across the photos of the stained glass window from el Alcazar (royal castle) of Segovia. 

.. and some more images of this king from miniature.

.and for comparison, also from Segovia - a knight riding la brida (long stirrups), astride his armored horse wielding a sword

in both images the mounted knights are armored with plate armor
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kings coats of arms from the Segovia cathedral

later, posthumous image of the king

Valete

Louis Maurer & America XIX century racing horses

 Salvete Omnes,

a quick post but the subject matter is grand - the American harness racing horses in the art of Louis Maurer. 
Nota bene I had worked a little bit with the harness racing horses back in a day, it was very interesting to watch these powerful pacers & trotters  eat speed in their sulky harness around the track, and later on when in a herd and at liberty  prance among some apple orchards. 

I would have provided some links to my favorite world library - Archive - but less than a month ago Archive was attacked by malicious hacking assault and has been restoring its services, especially the book library (Way Back machine is back and running). 

So we have to have patience and meantime we can enjoy the equestrian lithography by  Louis Maurer (1832-1932) - from Wiki Commons.

some flat racing American Thoroughbred - 

 

Do note that Herr Maurer worked for Currier & Ives, the XIX century American printmaking firm, famous for their lithographies . 

Valete

Hanas Kreutzberger - horse types circa 1562 in Central Europe

 Salvete Omnes,

The Bavarian State llibrary has several copies of the XVI century German farrier's work, Hans Kreutzberger, on the bits of the period -  I do not read this old German script, but I am trying to decipher the script in the horse plates.
But there are almost 400 curb-bits described in this volume. and some splendid horse woodcuts and drawings showing horse conformation 

this is the title page from 1591 edition

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and horses 

the Turkish horse  - from the 1562 drawing

and Hungarian cavalier, buckler and sabre,  with a Wallachian horse

sadly no Polish horse, do note how the bridles are fastened etc.

some spurs, a stirrup and a currycomb 

Enjoy

Valete

George Henry Laporte

 Salvete Omnes,

 today is Saturday and a good day to show some artwork by George Hnery Laporte, XIX century  English painter of Huguenot descent.

He was a son of John Laporte, a noted English watercolorist.

So without much ado - here are some of his fine equestrian works -

Arabian horse theme:

Tate Gallery - mare and foal and an attendant 

from Sothebys Orientalist Sale -

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from Hungarian National Gallery 

enjoy 

Valete