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...ranch's open pastures. By gradually approaching the wary mustangs in corrals, Day and his wranglers taught them to become comfortable around people. "They have had so much negative training before they get here, they think they are going to suffer if they see a man on horseback," says Day. "We want to show them that we are not the enemy." Out of the corrals, the mustangs are rotated to one of twelve pastures, then moved periodically to allow the grass to regrow. "I'm a grass specialist," Day explains. "Though some people have romantic notions of the operation...
...travel. We can be abundantly grateful for what we have: the first Velazquez exhibition ever held in the U.S., comprising more than a third of his total known output, including such great works of his maturity as the Prado's portraits of the Count-Duke of Olivares on horseback and Queen Mariana and early ones like The Waterseller of Seville, painted when he was around 20, from London's Wellington Museum...
Just a few months ago, Wuer was a handsome college freshman who listened to Beethoven, read classic Chinese novels and thought there was no greater adventure than riding horseback with cossack herdsmen in the cool mountains of his beloved Xinjiang autonomous region...
...funding has not been the arboretum's only problem in recent years. About 10 years ago, a woman was attacked while jogging through the arboretum in the early morning. Security at the arboretum was subsequently increased. Today park rangers from the Boston Park District patrol the grounds on horseback and in jeep vans. Boston Police also drive through the grounds many times daily, says Jo Procter, the arboretum's public affairs oficer...
...best of the "classicists" was Sironi, whose reputation as an artist has badly suffered from his devotion to Fascism: he stayed loyal to Mussolini right through to 1943. The figure on horseback in The White Horse and the Pier, 1920-22, draws on Italy's long history of equestrian hero images and may refer to the Duce. Nevertheless, as painting, Sironi's dark, emphatically delineated compositions, with their massive figures and Brunelleschian weight of architecture, are often quite superb, a reminder that you cannot necessarily judge an artist by his or her political ideology...