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An equestrian facility is created and maintained for the purpose of accommodating, training or competing equids, especially horses. Based on their use, they may be known as a barn, stables, or riding hall and may include commercial operations described by terms such as a boarding stable, livery yard, or livery stable.
The Michigan State Fair is an annual event originally held from 1849 to 2009 in Detroit, the state's largest city. In 2009 the governor declined to fund it because of other priorities. In 2009 the governor declined to fund it because of other priorities.
Farmyard with barn and house Barn and silo aerial. Ira Wilson was born in 1867, and began his career in dairy farming at an early age, working on the farm owned by his family since 1847. [2] He built a barn on this site in 1888; in 1919 the barn burned and he built the present structure on the foundations of the earlier barn. [2]
The Michigan State Fair, first held in 1849, was the nation's first state fair. It was held in various locations throughout Michigan until 1904, when Joseph L. Hudson formed the State Fair Land Company, acquired 135 acres of land at this site, and deeded it to the Michigan Agricultural Society.
Card advertising livery stables, printer's sample, Cincinnati, 1861. A livery yard, livery stable or boarding stable, is a stable where horse owners pay a weekly or monthly fee to keep their horses.
Maybury State Park is a public recreation area in Northville Township, Wayne County, Michigan composed of 944 acres (382 ha) of gently rolling terrain, open meadow, and mature forest. [2] The park gives people in the nearby metropolitan area an opportunity to get involved in outdoor recreation activities in a state park setting.
Dressage (/ ˈ d r ɛ s ɑː ʒ / or / d r ɪ ˈ s ɑː ʒ /; French:, most commonly translated as "training") is a form of horse riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an art sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery.
Stockholm Olympic Stadium is the only venue to host equestrian events at the Summer Olympics twice, doing so in 1912 and 1956. Nymphenburg Palace hosted the dressage portion of the equestrian events for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Fifty-three venues have been used for equestrian events at the Olympic Games. From 1912 to 1992, the events ...