BS: The wonderful one horse thread.

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 05:46 PM

Prince. He was the biggest shire horse in the country at one point and lived at the bottom of our road.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: Michael
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 05:49 PM

Skewball (or Stewball) (Is that a recipe?)

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 05:51 PM

Hunglika

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 06:05 PM

Sea biscuit

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 07:45 PM

My father was a horse trainer and he bought, sold and traded horses all the time. When we came home from school we never knew whether a favorite horse would still be on the premises.

One trotter (NOT pig knuckles) that came off the track and that we had for years was named 'Trueboy'. One of those human-oriented animals that prove and disprove a lot of misconceptions. I'd love to see a thread with first-person stories of horses and dogs.

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 08:16 PM

Dick Turpin's horse, Black Bess. (And on this page you have hear a snatch of John Kirkpatrick's song about her. And not a dry eye in the house...

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 08:33 PM

Francis the Talking Mule

Francis the Talking Mule


(A mule's only one-half horse, so I had to list him twice.)

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 05:44 AM

...a horse with no name...

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: GUEST,Giok
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 06:27 AM

The Big Horse that they sing about. You know the song it goes.....
Big Horse, Big Horse you're mine. I think Mario Lanza used to sing it.
Giok
(I'll get me New Zealand rug)

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 11:29 AM

Yeah! I remember that horse. The Beatles did a song about him too. Something about "Big Horse, Big Horse, I love you."

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: GUEST,Charley Noble
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 12:46 PM

Smokey from a book of the same name by Will James.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: beadie
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 02:08 PM

Ebbie:

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: beadie
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 02:18 PM

Ebbie:

       When I was a kid, my folks owned a boarding farm for harness racing horses that ran on the Chicago tracks. For a time, the sire of the "Hanover" line was resident and standing stud on our place. I don't believe that he ever won the Hambletonian, but I know his name was on several later winners.

Dusty (a stable name, I think) was a huge animal, but as gentle to us lower forms of life as any puppy.

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 02:23 PM

The Black Stallion

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 09:46 PM

Buttermilk (Dale Evans horse)

Topper (Hopalong Cassidy's horse)

But what was the name of the horse that pulled the "Wonderful One-Horse Shay"?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: *Laura*
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:23 PM

Desert Orchid

Subject: RE: BS: The wonderful one horse thread.
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 01:34 PM

Beadie, the beauty of a trotter in full stride can still make me cry.

I am dismayed every time I see a movie showing horses pulling stage coaches or buckboards at a gallop, rather than at a trot. No horse trainer or owner worth his salt would allow his 'hitched' horse to break into a gallop, except in emergency.