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  2. The 1821 Derby at Epsom - Wikipedia

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    The position of the horses' legs in the painting – with both front and hind legs extended outwards while airborne – is never actually exhibited by a galloping horse. This was conclusively demonstrated by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, with high-speed photography showing that galloping horses are airborne when their legs are beneath the body ...

  3. The Horse in Motion - Wikipedia

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    The Horse in Motion is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a series of six to twelve "automatic electro-photographs" depicting succesive phases in the movement of a horse, shot in June 1878. An additional card reprinted the single image of the horse "Occident" trotting at high speed, which had ...

  4. Horse gait - Wikipedia

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    The trot is the working gait for a horse. Horses can only canter and gallop for short periods at a time, after which they need time to rest and recover. Horses in good condition can maintain a working trot for hours. The trot is the main way horses travel quickly from one place to the next. [citation needed]

  5. Pinto horse - Wikipedia

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    A pinto horse, with patches of white and of another color. A pinto horse has a coat color that consists of large patches of white and any other color. Pinto coloration is also called paint, [1] particolored, [2]: 171 or in nations that use British English, simply coloured. Pinto horses have been around since shortly after the domestication of ...

  6. File:The Horse in Motion.jpg - Wikipedia

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  7. At the Races in the Countryside - Wikipedia

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    The green coloring of the painting is suggestive of an influence from English horse racing scenes. [9] The driver's top hat and the presence of the bulldog also contribute to the "English character" of the painting. English styles were fashionable among the French upper classes at the time of the painting's creation. [10]

  8. Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies - Wikipedia

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    The Horses photographed in 2012. The Horses (also known as the Wild Horse Monument) is a public art sculpture created by David Govedare in 1989–1990 and situated near Vantage, Washington. It consists of 15 life-size steel horses which appear to be galloping across a ridge above the Columbia River. Presented as a gift for the centenary of ...

  9. Horse symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.