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A British company has developed a GPS product that attaches to a horse to send essential physical, physiological and environmental information about a training workout to the trainer, via the internet. One of the last great cavalry charges took place 90 years ago at Moreuil Wood. Brough Scott (one of the best known figures in horse racing) and whose grandfather led the field, tells the story of the special horse who fearlessly carried the general into battle. Asterix and Obelix, had they existed, might have paid for their mead and other magic potions with gold-silver-copper coins stamped with elaborate images of men and horses. Now a record-breaking haul from Gaul has been discovered at farm in Brittany. Pack Saddles and Sudaderos: Long Rider Jeremy James was the first Westerner to discover an amazing girthless pack saddle when he made an equestrian welfare study for the Vietnamese government. Kentucky overrun with unwanted
horses. K Normandy grave hints at 300-year defiance of the Roman Empire. A macabre 1,700-year-old mass grave of people and horses, discovered in Normandy, poses perplexing new questions about the Roman conquest of France. The grave site, from the 3rd century, which was discovered by French state archaeologists at Evreux, appears to contain ritual arrangements of human and horse remains. In one, a human skull is clasped between two horse's skulls, like the two halves of a giant shell. (January 2007) Horsemen of the Steppes: Ancient Corrals Found in Kazakhstan. At least 5,600 years ago the Botai people that inhabited what is modern day Kazakhstan used horses - both wild and apparently domestic - as the basis of their lifestyle. But proof of their ancient use has been hard to find. Because of the impermanence of leather, little survives of the implements that would be used to ride a horse, such as a bit or bridle, and domestication induced few morphological changes in the horse. But new research in the ancient Botai village of Krasnyi Yar seems to have turned up some ancient corrals--and pushed proof of horse domestication further back in time. (October 2006) King Tut may have died in a riding accident. The world's most celebrated boy king, Tutankhamun, may have died after badly breaking a leg while playing sport. Speculation over the death of Tutankhamun has raged since the mummy was first inspected in 1925. (November 2006) Centuries-old bones of horses unearthed in Carlsbad, California. Archaeologists working against the clock in Carlsbad have unearthed another nearly intact skeleton of a horse that may have lived and died 50 years before the Spanish began their conquest of California. (August 2005) Hun Princess Graveyard’s Secret . A Hunnu princess’s graveyard discovered in summer of 1990 in Mankhan locality of Khovd province has become the sensation in the world of archeology... Five horse skulls were put on the northern side to the burial, with one horse head turned towards the coffin. The number 5 was revered by Huns because of their special reverence for Cygnus Constellation. One separate horse head probably belonged to the princess’ beloved horse. (May 2005) DNA to help solve ancient equine mysteries. An archaeological project will be carried out to conduct a DNA analysis on a dozen horse skeletons unearthed from ancient burial tombs in Shaanxi, an inland province in Northwest China. A joint Chinese and British team of scientists from the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Peking University and Cambridge University will undertake the project, said Li Gang, a Shaanxi Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage official. (January 2005) Court soaks 2 men in rain for cruelty. Magistrate makes men charged with cruelty to horses take off their hats and coats and stand in the rain. (December 1925)
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