Word: equestrianism
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Milos Foreman, the Czech director, makes it all very lighthearted and a bit absurd. There is a fantastic equestrian dance sequence in the Aquarius number where two mounted police stallions do a perfectly synchronized two-step...
...venture was such a success that Carlsberg opened posher Stallion Springs Horse Ranch in semiarid land north of Los Angeles. Campers at Stallion are less interested in roughing it than riding it, drawn by the park's boarding stables, corrals and an equestrian show ring that seats 600. Though he also runs a profitable real estate and construction company, Carlsberg is concerned, he says, about "retaining land as much as possible in its natural beauty...
...commend you for giving recognition to the equestrian Three-Day World Championships [Oct. 2] and to a sport that has been in the background for years but is growing in popularity. H?wever, I find it appalling that this phase of competition causes the death or near death of horses. It is time changes occurred to allow horses to remain healthy and still bring honor...
...challenge was formidable. For one thing, Davidson was pitted against competitors from a dozen countries who had gone to Lexington's new $35 million Horse Park for the quadrennial Three-Day World Championships, an equestrian event being held in the U.S. for the first time. More important, perhaps, Davidson faced one of the toughest courses ever devised for horse and rider. With roots going back to the bloody cavalry charges and elegant military tattoos of the 18th century, three-day eventing tests the full range of a mount's abilities, from deft, close-quarter maneuvers to a cross-country marathon...
...scoring?that the 70,000 spectators in the Horse Park had waited eagerly to see: the four-part endurance run over a course so tough that many experts there called it the most strenuous in the world. Among those watching was Britain's Prince Philip, president of the International Equestrian Federation and a fine rider himself; he was, he said, glad he did not have to compete over the course...