Death and the King's Horseman, about a man called on by tradition to take his own life, combines dance, language and music to tragic effect.
In the year 2000, he gave a speech in which he promised that four horsemen were about to descend on the magazine business.
He worked as a catch-driver for other trainers because it gave him experience and a chance to study how other horsemen went about building winners.
"I hear horsemen talking about it all the time," Balch said.
Chauvel's nephew Charles Chauvel became a well-known film director, whose films included Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940), about the Battle of Beersheba.
If season one of BoJack Horseman is about a character learning he needs to change, the new season is about whether or not he can.
Premiering on Netflix in 2014, BoJack Horseman is about a hubristic former sitcom star who smokes too much, drinks too much, has sex with everyone and is awful.
We chatted with the Horseman himself about the inspiration for "Bleeding Arrows," the development of his sound, and how his persona relates to his music.
Horsemen expressed worries about the future, however.
At Oaklawn, local horsemen often complain about the way Baffert's runners arrive from California to steal stakes races.
