2005 365 Horse Tales Page-A-Day Calendar: A Year of Nature's Noblest Creatures

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Did you know that horses disappeared from America a million years ago and returned with the conquistadors--or that the Aztecs called them "large dogs"? Did you know that "get your goat" is a racing term (since goats were used to keep thoroughbreds calm, unscrupulous owners would steal a rival's goat from his stall)? Packed with facts, stories, even odd laws still on the books, 365 Horse Tales is passionate, obsessive, literate, and day-after-day fascinating. Famous grooms, famous jockeys. Law & order horses, from the Texas Rangers to Australia's Mounted Police. Steeplechase, polo, circus horses. Royal mounts and the age of chivalry. Therapy horses and movies about horses--including, of course, Seabiscuit.


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Did you know that horses disappeared from America a million years ago and returned with the conquistadors--or that the Aztecs called them "large dogs"? Did you know that "get your goat" is a racing term (since goats were used to keep thoroughbreds calm, unscrupulous owners would steal a rival's goat from his stall)? Packed with facts, stories, even odd laws still on the books, 365 Horse Tales is passionate, obsessive, literate, and day-after-day fascinating. Famous grooms, famous jockeys. Law & order horses, from the Texas Rangers to Australia's Mounted Police. Steeplechase, polo, circus horses. Royal mounts and the age of chivalry. Therapy horses and movies about horses--including, of course, Seabiscuit.


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