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Just watching braveheart with the OH, and noticed that they all seem to be on big strapping horses, and mostly foreign breeds. Correct me if im wrong but would they not have been on Highland ponies and Shetlands??
Would have made much more amusing veiwing if anything :D
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Omg,the vision in my head of it all being filmed with Shetlands (instead of the bigger horses they used) is just too hilarious to contemplate:D
 
I think they should re-make it, it would be brilliant! I think they'd have been more likely to have used galloways at the time though.
 
WOAH!! I have visions :D

Often wondered about other 'historical epics' too - knights and their beautiful white chargers - or should that be knights on their turbo Shetland :D:D
 
RainbowDash said:
WOAH!! I have visions :D

Often wondered about other 'historical epics' too - knights and their beautiful white chargers - or should that be knights on their turbo Shetland :D:D
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HA! turbo shetlands that would be great, can just see them with there legs up in the air to keep them off the floor, perhaps thats why rollerskates were invented and there just keeping it from us!:cool:
 
We've been told our lovely 14yo boy was in a film when he was about 5, he was some sort of charger/war horse...at 14.1hh could he have carried Tom Cruise?:D
But agree, I thought should be highlands when I saw film too, but maybe galloways more accurate??
 
BeanyG said:
HA! turbo shetlands that would be great, can just see them with there legs up in the air to keep them off the floor, perhaps thats why rollerskates were invented and there just keeping it from us!:cool:
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Hah! - we have found the true reason knights needed spurs!! - ye olde roller skate :D:D
 
The black stallion Mel Gibson rode... that is Jardinero X... my filly's Grandsire :)

jardinero-x.jpg
 
Actually, it's highly likely they rode spanish horses crossed with heavier breeds as there was a good relationship between Spain and Britain during those times.
 
There were a good few hairies at least I always think they look funny next to the spanish types . I think back then they had types of horses rather than the distinct breeds we have today destriers for knights ??
There was an advert not so long ago that had a shetland pony charge can't for the life of me rememeber though.
Found it!!!
http://www.myspace.com/video/lynsey...-have-been-like-with-shetland-ponies/31110087
 
cob&onion said:
Okay i had to google *galloways* - sorry for sounding dim but are these cows?? :o
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Here's a bit from wikipedia that might help explain about galloway ponies:-
"The Galloway pony is an extinct horse breed, once native to Scotland and northern England. It was said to have "good looks, a wide, deep chest and a tendency to pace rather than trot." In the 18th century Galloways were bred in Swaledale, to haul lead ore.[1]

It was a well-known type of pony, noted in English literature when Shakespeare referred to "Galloway nags" in Henry IV, part II. A survey in 1814 stated:

The province of Galloway formerly possessed a breed of horses peculiar to itself, which were in high estimation for the saddle, being, though of a small size, exceedingly hardy and active. They were larger than the ponies of Wales, and the north of Scotland, and rose from twelve to fourteen hands in height. The soils of Galloway, in their unimproved state, are evidently adapted for rearing such a breed of horses; and in the moors and mountainous part of the country, a few of the native breed are still to be found. … This ancient race is almost lost, since farmers found it necessary to breed horses of greater weight, and better adapted to the draught. But such as have a considerable portion of the old blood, are easily distinguished, by their smallness of head and neck, and cleanness of bone. They are generally of a light bay or brown colour, and their legs black. The name of Galloway is sometimes given to horses of an intermediate size between the poney and the full-sized horse, whatever may be the breed. Sinclair, J., 1814: General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of Scotland. (Edinburgh, Constable)[2]

The Galloway pony heavily influenced the Newfoundland pony, the Highland Pony, and the Fell pony of England. It died out through crossbreeding because its crossbred progeny were such useful animals, much like the Narragansett Pacer breed of Rhode Island.

Today, the term "Galloway" is used in Australia to describe horses between 14 and 15 hands (56 and 60 inches, 142 and 152 cm) tall.


My old grandad always referred to a certain type of pony as a 'gallower'.
 
touchstone said:
Here's a bit from wikipedia that might help explain about galloway ponies:-
"The Galloway pony is an extinct horse breed, once native to Scotland and northern England. It was said to have "good looks, a wide, deep chest and a tendency to pace rather than trot." In the 18th century Galloways were bred in Swaledale, to haul lead ore.[1]

It was a well-known type of pony, noted in English literature when Shakespeare referred to "Galloway nags" in Henry IV, part II. A survey in 1814 stated:

The province of Galloway formerly possessed a breed of horses peculiar to itself, which were in high estimation for the saddle, being, though of a small size, exceedingly hardy and active. They were larger than the ponies of Wales, and the north of Scotland, and rose from twelve to fourteen hands in height. The soils of Galloway, in their unimproved state, are evidently adapted for rearing such a breed of horses; and in the moors and mountainous part of the country, a few of the native breed are still to be found. … This ancient race is almost lost, since farmers found it necessary to breed horses of greater weight, and better adapted to the draught. But such as have a considerable portion of the old blood, are easily distinguished, by their smallness of head and neck, and cleanness of bone. They are generally of a light bay or brown colour, and their legs black. The name of Galloway is sometimes given to horses of an intermediate size between the poney and the full-sized horse, whatever may be the breed. Sinclair, J., 1814: General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of Scotland. (Edinburgh, Constable)[2]

The Galloway pony heavily influenced the Newfoundland pony, the Highland Pony, and the Fell pony of England. It died out through crossbreeding because its crossbred progeny were such useful animals, much like the Narragansett Pacer breed of Rhode Island.

Today, the term "Galloway" is used in Australia to describe horses between 14 and 15 hands (56 and 60 inches, 142 and 152 cm) tall.


My old grandad always referred to a certain type of pony as a 'gallower'.
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thanks for that, you learn something new everyday. i had never heard of a galloway! surely some of them will have had shetlands though?! please dont break my heart :confused:
 
we should all get together with our tiny ponies and remake it! put it on youtube! would be a massive hit!

not that I've seen the original! just like this idea!
 
Fancy you thinking that a MOVIE would use historically accurate horses (Braveheart was not in the least historically accurate, in any department, BTW). The posher people (kinights, in other words) would indeed have probably ridden Spanish horses - they were the Ferraris and BMW's of their day, and they would have been around 14hh on average.
 
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