Preview: Lee Valley International Horseball Cup
Splice rugby, basketball and horse riding for a weekend of Anglo French action out east
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Plans For Giant Horse Submitted To Council
Mark Wallinger’s ‘Angel of the South’, a gigantic horse 33 times life size, trotted a step closer today as plans were submitted to Gravesham Borough Council. If approved, the brobdingnagian steed will tower above the Kent countryside near the Eurostar tracks at Ebbsfleet, representing the …
Naked Lady To Ride Horse Through Central London
If you’re queuing up for one of the many Westminster venues during Open House tomorrow, keep an eye out for Caroline Anns-Baldock. The 62-year-old former flat jockey will ride ‘naked’ along Whitehall on her way to Downing Street. Those inverted commas are needed because this …
The Saturday Strangeness
107. A cunning plan… George Sanger was a menagerist and showman from Kent who recalled how he constructed a devilish plan to attract huge audiences to his show in London in 1926. Mr Sanger owned twelve wolves, as tame as dogs, which he advertised to …
A Gift Of A Horse For Ebbsfleet
Image by Mick h 51 from the Londonist Flickr pool The Angel of the South has turned out to be… a great big white horse. The noble beast by Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger has been selected out of a shortlist of three by the …
The Saturday Strangeness
63. The Horses Of Death I’ve often been intrigued by reports of phantom animals, especially horses when they are seen to be leading a carriage through some misty backroad of a night. What perplexes me most is the fact that if inanimate objects have no …
