03-20-2004, 06:23 PM
Sassanian,<br>
Thanks for the kind comments on my "toys". I still have family in California and when I go there again, and if the saddles are ready, I'll take one along which you can test. You are obviously much more of a horse expert than me, so will try to get a pic of the original rigid tree to show so you will have an idea of how "universal" it might be, but clearly, no one saddle will ever property fit the many different breeds reenactors will want to use with the saddle. This is why the pad type might be better. Even so, I will recommend to Deepeeka to sell the saddles as "display use only" to avoid any potential lawsuits, though I would not approve the issue of any, until I tried it myself.<br>
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My greatest "bareback" ride was a televised race in the original Circus of Mexentius at Rome. If you have the Junkelmann Cavalry books you will see us on the cover of one. I believe I came in "second", though admit "hanging on to the mane for dear life!"<br>
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The Limes Ride was a grueling experience, but one of my highlights of living in Europe. I have asked Rich to post a pic on this thread of "Castor" and myself, on the first phase of the Limes march, somewhere near the Roman fort at Butzbach. This was before my Carmargue-based Roman saddle was built, and I am riding Peter Connolly's original prototype seen in JRMES and painted in his "The Cavalryman" book. "Castor", as are all the other horses from the original Limes ride, sadly, now deceased. Appropriately, he is also the horse I rode in the Rome sequence you may have seen at the temple of Castor and Pollux in the books.<br>
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I like your mail-coifed Sassanian helmet. Please post a pic of your complete mounted impression. I am now building six complete Flavian, and six complete 'late' Roman cavalry impressions in addition to the cataphract stuff. Maybe we will be able to stage a Roman vs. Persian cavalry skirmish someday!<br>
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If you happen to run accross any other "dragon" accounts besides the one I mentioned in the Dinkard, please let me know. I do not think this text is posted in English anywhere on the internet.<br>
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Thanks, Dan<br>
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(NB: Dan asked me to post this photo of Castor and him; the link is to a larger image)<br>
<img src="http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Richsc/SCastorDan.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Richsc/CastoDan.jpg<br>
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<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=richsc@romanarmytalk>RichSC</A> at: 3/23/04 3:22 am<br></i>
Thanks for the kind comments on my "toys". I still have family in California and when I go there again, and if the saddles are ready, I'll take one along which you can test. You are obviously much more of a horse expert than me, so will try to get a pic of the original rigid tree to show so you will have an idea of how "universal" it might be, but clearly, no one saddle will ever property fit the many different breeds reenactors will want to use with the saddle. This is why the pad type might be better. Even so, I will recommend to Deepeeka to sell the saddles as "display use only" to avoid any potential lawsuits, though I would not approve the issue of any, until I tried it myself.<br>
<br>
My greatest "bareback" ride was a televised race in the original Circus of Mexentius at Rome. If you have the Junkelmann Cavalry books you will see us on the cover of one. I believe I came in "second", though admit "hanging on to the mane for dear life!"<br>
<br>
The Limes Ride was a grueling experience, but one of my highlights of living in Europe. I have asked Rich to post a pic on this thread of "Castor" and myself, on the first phase of the Limes march, somewhere near the Roman fort at Butzbach. This was before my Carmargue-based Roman saddle was built, and I am riding Peter Connolly's original prototype seen in JRMES and painted in his "The Cavalryman" book. "Castor", as are all the other horses from the original Limes ride, sadly, now deceased. Appropriately, he is also the horse I rode in the Rome sequence you may have seen at the temple of Castor and Pollux in the books.<br>
<br>
I like your mail-coifed Sassanian helmet. Please post a pic of your complete mounted impression. I am now building six complete Flavian, and six complete 'late' Roman cavalry impressions in addition to the cataphract stuff. Maybe we will be able to stage a Roman vs. Persian cavalry skirmish someday!<br>
<br>
If you happen to run accross any other "dragon" accounts besides the one I mentioned in the Dinkard, please let me know. I do not think this text is posted in English anywhere on the internet.<br>
<br>
Thanks, Dan<br>
<br>
(NB: Dan asked me to post this photo of Castor and him; the link is to a larger image)<br>
<img src="http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Richsc/SCastorDan.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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img15.photobucket.com/albums/v45/Richsc/CastoDan.jpg<br>
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<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=richsc@romanarmytalk>RichSC</A> at: 3/23/04 3:22 am<br></i>
