09-23-2015, 05:27 AM
Is this the young jockey you mean? The jockey of Artemision, galloping on his horse, dated around 140 BC. Found in pieces, it was discovered in north Euboea off the cape of Artemision, in the area of a shipwreck.
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I am sure the equestrian peoples of the ancient world from the Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans and Huns onwards enjoyed their horseback races which were probably much longer than today's races.
Endurance for travelling long distances and hunting would have been a prerequisite for a valuable horse and races would have been a good way to evaluate a horse, even amongst the Romans, Celts and Greeks. Hadrian when he signed a treaty with the Roxolani king, Rasparagnus received a valuable horse, Borysthenes as a gift which he rode on hunts and on its death in a hunt he composed a poem to mourn the loss of his favourite horse. Even now the Mongols have races that can go for 15 to 30 kilometres during festivals like the Nadaam festival which probably date back further than Genghis Khan.
[attachment=12834]Mongolracing.jpg[/attachment]
And even today a lot of Central Asian republics have horse racing. Turkmenistan has horse racing like a lot of western nations but ride their akhal-teke horses rather than thoroughbreds. :-)
[attachment=12835]AkhalTekeracing.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=12833]THEJOCKEYOFARTEMISION.jpg[/attachment]
I am sure the equestrian peoples of the ancient world from the Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans and Huns onwards enjoyed their horseback races which were probably much longer than today's races.
Endurance for travelling long distances and hunting would have been a prerequisite for a valuable horse and races would have been a good way to evaluate a horse, even amongst the Romans, Celts and Greeks. Hadrian when he signed a treaty with the Roxolani king, Rasparagnus received a valuable horse, Borysthenes as a gift which he rode on hunts and on its death in a hunt he composed a poem to mourn the loss of his favourite horse. Even now the Mongols have races that can go for 15 to 30 kilometres during festivals like the Nadaam festival which probably date back further than Genghis Khan.
[attachment=12834]Mongolracing.jpg[/attachment]
And even today a lot of Central Asian republics have horse racing. Turkmenistan has horse racing like a lot of western nations but ride their akhal-teke horses rather than thoroughbreds. :-)
[attachment=12835]AkhalTekeracing.jpg[/attachment]
Regards
Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"
