David Gray's pictures of the week 22-1-2007

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The picture set this week takes a look at horses. Wikipedia describes them as "odd-toed ungulates of the order Perissodactyla, a relatively ancient group of browsing and grazing animals that first arose less than 10 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct". So they'd been around a long time before we learnt to domesticate and use them for everything from ploughing fields to the 3.30 at Kempton Park. An English writer called Naomi Royde Smith, now otherwise entirely forgotten, wrote the couplet that went "I know two things about the horse, and one of them is rather coarse". She never said what it was, which is rather a shame.

At the Heathfield Show in Sussex in May 1991 (image 808-9)

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