HJN Content posted on June 25th, 2007

Report on the hearing in the case of alledged abuse at CCI 4* Lexington

The hearing in the case of alleged abuse at CCI 4* Lexington involving rider Amy Tryon (USA) and horse Le Samurai, which had occurred on 28 April 2007, took place today 25 June 2025 at the FEI Headquarters in Lausanne. (Read on…)

The Horse Fair

To what lengths will an artist go to paint a picture? Michelangelo remained perched on a scaffold from 1508 to 1512 to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. While working in 1818 on The Raft of the Medusa (Le radeau de la Méduse), which depicts the desperate survivors of the frigate Medusa which had been shipwrecked off the coast of Senegal, French painter Théodore Géricault rented a studio near a morgue so he could study at leisure dead bodies and amputated limbs.

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