Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Trick horses" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. ... Code of Conduct;
The Cossack Drag or Death Drag. Trick riding by Mr. Price in the 18th Century Roman riding Stunt riding at the King of the Ranges competition day, Murrurundi, NSW. Trick riding refers to the act of performing stunts while horseback riding, such as the rider standing upright on the back of a galloping horse, using a specially designed saddle with a reinforced steel horn, and specialized kossak ...
When the Miller-Arlington Show suddenly closed in 1911, it left many performers stranded in Venice, California. [4] Thomas H. Ince, who was producing for the New York Motion Picture Company, hired the entire cast for the winter at $2,500 a week. The performers were paid $8 a week and boarded in Venice, where the horses were stabled.
As a child, Sheppard's mother had shown horses in the Fort Worth Coliseum. Sheppard made her first rodeo appearance at the Hayward, California , rodeo as a trick rider and roper at 9 years old. She performed at the Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon when she was 11 years old.
When Griffith was trick riding at a rodeo, she had an accident. Her horse Winnie stumbled while she was moving from the horse's neck to another position. Winnie somersaulted, and Connie was crushed under her. [2] The Griffith family has been trick riding from the early 1900s, passing the torch forward ever since.
This trick riding style was called Dzhigitovka (a Turkic word taken to mean skilful and courageous rider). They won widespread recognition and significantly influenced cowboys. [ 4 ] Western historian Dee Brown notes that "Trick riding came to rodeo by way of a troupe of Cossack daredevils imported by the 101 Ranch.
Two horses were struck and killed by passing vehicles late Tuesday after they ran onto a Los Angeles freeway, authorities said. Other drivers saved a third horse and helped the animal over to the ...
Pages in category "Horse races in California" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 202 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .