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They then changed their name to Tindersticks after Staples discovered a box of German matches on a Greek beach. [ 3 ] Tindersticks started recording demo tapes in 1992, and formed their own label Tippy Toe Records to release their first single, "Patchwork", in the same year.
Hobby horse polo (German: Steckenpferdpolo) is a mixed team sport played on hobby horses.It is similar to other polo variants, such as canoe polo, cycle polo, camel polo, elephant polo, golfcart polo, Segway polo, auto polo, and yak polo [citation needed] in that it uses the basic polo rules, but it has its own specialities.
From about 1965 breeders in Germany began to selectively breed the traditional Shetland Pony with the taller and more athletic American Shetland Pony, with the aim of creating a more elegant pony better suited to use for riding and driving. [5] The 1961 American champion stallion Jiggs was imported, together with several mares. In the 1990s the ...
This is a list of some of the breeds of horse considered in Germany to be wholly or partly of German origin. In 2014 there were 151 horse breeds reported to DAD-IS by Germany, many of them imported from other parts of the world. Only those breeds with some history of development within present-day Germany are listed below. Inclusion here does ...
The Dülmener or Dülmen is a German breed of small feral horse. [5] It was formerly known as the Merfelderbrücher. [6] A herd of approximately 300 head lives in feral conditions in an area of about 3.5 km 2 in the Merfelder Bruch, near the town of Dülmen in the Kreis of Coesfeld in north-western Nordrhein-Westfalen, in north-western Germany.
A person who engages in phillumeny is a phillumenist. [2] The words, derived from Greek phil- [loving] + Latin lumen- [light], were introduced by the British collector Marjorie S. Evans in 1943 (who later became president of the British Matchbox Label & Booklet Society, now renamed the British Matchbox Label and Bookmatch Society). [3]
The German Riding Pony ideally is between 138 cm and 148 cm or approximately 13.2 hands to 14.2 hands, though in some European competition, ponies up to 151 cm are allowed, and these taller animals can compete against full-sized horses at CDI FEI-sanctioned competition. The German Riding Pony is bred to be handled by children and adolescents.
The "mare's well" horse fountain at Marbach, featuring an Arabian mare and foal. Marbach stables. The Marbach Stud, German: Haupt- und Landgestüt Marbach, is Germany's oldest state stud farm for horse breeding, has a history that dates back over 500 years. It is located in southwest Germany near Gomadingen in the Reutlingen district of Baden ...