Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curt Canning, captain of the crew and one of the six members of the group formed earlier this summer, said yesterday that the group will send out personal letters to the basketball team and to the part of the equestrian team which has been chosen. Most of the trials for the more than 500 Olympic berths will be held during the next two weeks...
Horse-show habits are so humdrum these days-all jodhpurs and jackets and little black caps. But the equestrian quadrille calls for costumes as well as class, and Britain's Princess Anne, 17, was making the most of it prettily dressed in a grey brocade Georgian coat, lace jabot, tricorn hat and wig. To the strains of Strauss, she and three chums put their mounts through the paces, and when the day's events were over, young Anne had won the Senior Individual and Training Cup, a nice surprise to take home to her horse-loving parents...
...Small equestrian figures are prevalent in village shrines, in part because of the horse's aristocratic connotations and in part for his mystical significance: his fleet hoofs are believed to bear riders safely to the spirit world. The cat is held in reverence by the Bengalis of Calcutta because it is the bahana, or mount, of Shashti, the Bengalese goddess of fecundity. Brightly colored Kalighat paintings of cats were made by street painters for sale to pilgrims to Calcutta's Temple of Kali. One of the most impressive objects is a brass figurine from Orissa; it shows...
...creator was Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a Dublin-born descendant of French shoemakers renowned in the late 19th century for his public stat ues - New York's equestrian Sherman, Chicago's Lincoln, Boston's Shaw and Washington's Adams Memorial. Diana was his favorite, though, and from the moment Architect Stanford White asked him to sculpt her as a fitting finial for the Garden (then under construction), she was a labor of love, his first nude, his first ideal figure. Saint-Gau dens chose an Irish girl named Nellie Fitzpatrick as his model, made...
Animals, on the other hand, have powerful friends. Last week the International Equestrian Federation announced its decision to shift the three-day Olympics riding competition from Mexico City to Oaxtepec, 45 miles away and about 2,800 ft. lower. "Horses," explained Britain's Prince Philip, president of the I.E.F., are inclined to "go on well beyond the prudent limit of effort." Added another I.E.F. official: "They do not have the common sense that humans do." Of course, if two-legged athletes want to strain their lungs and muscles in Mexico City's thin air-well, that is their...