Videos tagged with "royal"

Show Jumping - Royal Windsor Horse show 2012 [03:38]
Show jumping -- the experts view from the Royal Windsor Horse Show 2012, in partnership with Land Rover. Show jumping experts Bob Ellis and Tracey Priest tak...

The horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot [00:48]
Discover the epic story of the horse in this special free exhibition at the British Museum -- a journey of 5000 years that has revolutionised human history....

Royal York Horse [00:38]
They said it coulnd't be done - and they were wrong: Calgary Stampeder horse in lobby of the Royal York for Grey Cup 2012.

The KFPS Royal Friesian Horse [04:19]
The KFPS Friesian Horse- beautiful, versatile, athletic, kind, willing, and able to do anything! May the world see that this breed is loved and enjoyed by al...

1995 Blue Grass Stakes [12:23]
While the power horses of East and West stalked and chased, and while a medical miracle named Randy Romero hunched down in the saddle, a 30-1 long shot named Wild Syn led every step of the way today to win the Blue Grass Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths over Suave Prospect. And, while doing so, he royally scrambled the traffic on the road to the Kentucky Derby. No horse in the race was given less chance to win, yet no horse in the race ever got in front of him. He simply set a tantalizing pace that no jockey challenged, and at the end of a mile and one-eighth he still had the lead over some of the ranking candidates for the Derby: Suave Prospect, who held off the late run by Tejano Run by the length of his head, and then Thunder Gulch two lengths farther back. No match race developed between Thunder Gulch and Suave Prospect, as expected. No winning drive to the wire in the homestretch by Tejano Run, as expected. No clarifying of the Derby picture, as expected. And with the Canadian champion Talkin Man blitzing the field in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct in New York -- three weeks after he won the Gotham -- the Derby sweepstakes underwent a mighty one-day shakeout. Instead, at the picturesque Keeneland track in the heart of the horse country, it was all Wild Syn. He was running in only his second stakes race, guided by a jockey who retired last year after a career filled with injuries and at least three comebacks and saddled by a 26-year-old trainer, Thomas Arnemann. Not only that ...