Blending into the Afghan scene with their beards and scarves, the Americans mastered the art of horsemanship on wooden saddles and made spine-tingling night-time treks along mountain trails with minefields nearby.
The Gouzenkos' guardians were the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the red-coated Mounties brilliant at horsemanship set to music, but with limited knowledge of Soviet assassins.Canadian officials had at first been sceptical about Gouzenko and were doubtful about offering him asylum.
Though Ouagadougou, the capital, is richer in dust than glitz, it put on a flamboyant opening ceremony that featured displays of horsemanship and mime.
When The Economist wrote an article pointing out that some industrialised countries are having problems because of falling populations, we were inundated with the sort of mail we might have got had we said paedophiles are people, too, or praised the janjaweed for their horsemanship.
Modern "horse" work in artistic gymnastics has evolved to a point where there is no practical connection between gymnastic maneuvers on a horse and horsemanship.
Intelligence and sweetness of disposition as well as gracefulness destined it for academic horsemanship, notably as practiced at the Spanish Riding School of Vienna.
The Thracians were advanced in metalworking and in horsemanship.
Like the Scythians to whom they were closely related, the Sarmatians were highly developed in horsemanship and warfare.
Some of these, such as horsemanship and hunting, always remained more or less the privilege of an aristocratic and wealthy elite; however, the various branches of athletics, originally reserved for the sons of the great families, became more and more widely practiced.
G.M. (Bronco Billy) Anderson, the screen's first cowboy star, made hundreds of pictures that appeared almost weekly for four years, William S. Hart realistically portrayed a strong, silent man of the frontier, and Tom Mix dazzled audiences with his polished horsemanship and cleverness in outwitting outlaws.
