As he points out, the histories of humans and horses are intimately intertwined; once you start collecting horse-related arcana, it is hard to know where to stop.
Later Rothschilds spent more time indulging their passions for building, collecting, horse-racing and natural history than in the counting house.
He began collecting horse-drawn vehicles shortly thereafter, offering trips by coach and carriage as a way to underwrite his costly hobby.
I'd been collecting horse statues for years and, whenever I rode my bike around the Army base, I popped wheelies and pretended my bike was a horse rearing on its hind legs.
Most buyers flew in from other Mountain and Western states, where they may collect horses and ranches along with Western art.
Some collect horses that are famous for a certain sport, such as racing or jumping.
People often collect horses from a certain time period or a certain region.
During World War II, he spent four years as a yeoman on a Navy destroyer, filling his night watches by writing short stories, including "The Horse on the Escalator," about a man who collected horse jokes.
Jim planted dahlias and snapdragons in the front garden of Forthlin Road and regularly trimmed the lavender hedge, although it was Paul's job to collect horse manure from the local streets in a bucket to be dug into the flowerbeds.
Rod had numerous other interests, including jazz, chamber music, fly-fishing, opera, travel, carriage driving, show jumping, art collecting, horse breeding, reading, and collecting first editions of authors such as E. Phillips Oppenheim and Ludwig Bemelmens.
