Saturday, August 28, 2010

Comanche war bridle

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How kola (Lakota greeting),  my little sketch of what various horse trainers of the XIX century perceived as  the 'Comanche war bridle...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Achaemenid Persian (and Median) cavalry in sketches

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 Ushta te,  I wold like to show you this composite image of several drawings of mine that are supposed to show the horsemen of the Achaemen...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Xenophon on horse ridding - continuation of Peri Hippikes

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Salveos, today continuing from the Xenophon's book Peri Hippikes http://dariocaballeros.blogspot.com/2010/08/xenophon-on-colt-youn...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Xenophon's threatise 'On Horsemanship' continued

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Salveos, today we're going to continue with the most famous equestrian treatise,  Xenophon's "On Horsemanship,"  alre...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

XV century horses and their tack in Cappella dei Magi, Florence

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Salvete, In my previous one  entry on the Medieval dextrarius and his lesser friends  war-horse-dextrarius-opertus , I attempted to in...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Cavalry and horses of Northern Wei - China nomadic rulers

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Salve, Let us return to China and its nomadic heritage and equine past, to the time of the IV-VI centuries AD. When in the western E...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Xenophon on colt- young stallion conformation

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Salve, let us return for a moment to that time  less than 2,400 years ago, of the IV century BC,  when Athenian hippeis, adventurer, ph...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Horace Hayes on horses

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Horace Hayes in his book ' Points of horse,' published in the 1897, presented his very learned opinions regarding what a par...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

XV century Medieval Saddles from MET

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Salve, today I would like to share with you some screenshots of a video of the German Gothic Medieval Saddles ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

War horse 'dextrarius opertus'

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Salve, Fascinating subject and wonderful art - great horse and his (as it was a stallion or a gelding) equine friends 1250-1450 AD.  ...
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