Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 10 : Record of press coverage, March 1982 - May 1984

, ... neigh, in 2000 years they haven't changed much : , ' : i,, ~ ,~ .. •:- .•;,•~ ,.~.':!,r ~, :~ ,,..;;, ~-l;~,. ;-!?:J:~ -: ~ •-:..;.,', _:~- ·.~~ CHAMPION present-day race horse Strawberry Road. BODY OR BARREL: He has a the fetlock and the pastern, and are straight under-belly by normal a little enlarged but his may have standards but this also is prcdomi• been done to help support the nan! in some breeds of today. ~eir,ht of the rest of the body. LEGS: The level of the hocks to In summing up Dr Mason said: the knee is proportioned properly "This is a superbly-trained sturdy by today's standards. The iegs are small horse rather than a pony. very upright, particularly between He's distant from a thoroughbred in type but has the same refinement in breeding to a particular type with some characteristics of an Arab. "He is obvi<w ly well-educated and extremely obedient - if the rider said jump, it wouldn't be a case of when but how high." ONE of the 2000-year-old Chinese terracotta horses. The link with the Arab horse by Or Mason raised another genetic possibility for closer ties even with the dignitary of the horse world - the thoroughbreds. Back in the late 1600s the thor– oughbred line was established in England with the importation of the Arab stallion, the Byerly Turk. Emperor Qin built the Great Wall. With that imagination and those rugged horses in his stable, an Eagle Farm or Doomben in BC China would have been a knockout. The Sport of Kings - and Em– perors - had a long wait. J .J