Always reblog eagle hunters
“Paris à cheval" by Crafty et al. (1883) contains a whole chapter on the art of falling off your horse.
A farmer buring the hoof of a horse before shoeing it in Scotland, May 1921. Photograph by William Reid, National Geographic
From that era when the National Horse Show was at Madison Square Garden. (The New Yorker 11/9/1957, Arthur Getz 1913-1996).
Arabian horse in the desert, Antoine-Jean Gros, ca. 1810
