Review by Jane Flynn Read her blog here. Hyland A., The Warhorse in the Modern Era: The Boer War to the Beginning of the Second Millennium, Black Tent… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: The Warhorse in the Modern Era: The Boer War to the Beginning of the Second Millennium”
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#ShelfieSunday: Here Comes Exterminator!
Review by Eric Banks In Here Comes Exterminator!, writer Eliza McGraw revisits the life of the 1918 Kentucky Derby–winning gelding Exterminator, one of the most… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Here Comes Exterminator!”
#ShelfieSunday: Breeds of Empire
Breeds of Empire: The ‘Invention’ of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500–1950 Bankhoff, Greg; Swart, Sandra; Boomgaard, P. NIAS Press, 2007. Review by… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Breeds of Empire”
#SheflieSunday: Riding for Caesar
Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors’ Horse Guards Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1994 ISBN 978-0-674-76898-7 Michael P. Speidel Review by Miriam Bibby Last summer (2017),… Read more “#SheflieSunday: Riding for Caesar”
#ShelfieSunday: Mr. Darley’s Arabian
Review by Katherine Mooney Christopher McGrath begins Mr. Darley’s Arabian in the starting gate at Newmarket and follows Frankel to victory in the… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Mr. Darley’s Arabian”
#ShelfieSunday: My Colourful Life: from Red to Amber
Review of Ginger McCain, My Colourful Life: from Red to Amber. London: Headline Book Publishing, 2005, 2006, 2014. Review by Anastasija Ropa In this lively autobiography,… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: My Colourful Life: from Red to Amber”
#ShelfieSunday: Race Horse Men
Katherine C. Mooney Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014 Hardcover: $35.00 ISBN 9780674281424 Subject matter:… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Race Horse Men”
#ShelfieSunday: The Perfect Horse: The Daring US Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped By the Nazis
by Jeannette Vaught Review of Elizabeth Letts, The Perfect Horse: The Daring US Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped By the Nazis, New York, Ballantine Books,… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: The Perfect Horse: The Daring US Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped By the Nazis”
#ShelfieSunday: War Horse: Mounting the Cavalry with America’s Finest Horses
War Horse started as a project by two horsemen to uncover the relationship between pedigree and confirmation, especially pertaining to soundness and athleticism. It became an… Read more “#ShelfieSunday: War Horse: Mounting the Cavalry with America’s Finest Horses”
#ShelfieSunday: Le cheval et la guerre du XVe au XXe siècle
By Kathryn Renton Daniel Roche and Daniel Reytier, Le cheval et la guerre du XVe au XXe siècle (Paris: Association pour l’académie d’art équestre de Versailles, 2002). … Read more “#ShelfieSunday: Le cheval et la guerre du XVe au XXe siècle”