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 mare - Wiktionary
Cognate with German Mähre, Dutch merrie, and related to Old French mare (horse), Breton march (horse), Welsh march (horse), and possibly Korean 말 (mal, horse).
A sea of Moon, Mars, or another planet.
en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Mare   (50 words)

  
 Mare horseracing - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
The male equivalent to a mare is called simply a ''horse'', although in harness_racing the term ''aged horse'' is also used.
is defined as a female horse more than four years old; in harness_racing a mare is a female horse more than three years old.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
www.indexsuche.com /Mare_(horseracing).html   (50 words)

  
 Registry Overview
A horse, particularly a filly or mare, registered in B-Book I may therefore cost a bit less than an equivalent horse registered in the main studbook and a potential buyer should be aware of this fact and be able to recognize such a horse’s registration paper.
B-Book II horses can be identified by their distinctive blue and blue/pastel-red laminated plastic papers.
There is a set of rules whereby the offspring of a B-Book II mare can be registered in B-Book I if that mare is bred to an Approved Stallion.
www.fhana.com /RegistryOverwiew.php   (50 words)

  
 All Tennessee Walking Horse Horse Links. Tennessee Walking Horse Horses for Sale, Tennessee Walking Horse Stud Service, Tennessee Walking Horse Information
TIDE'S BELLE - Tennessee Walking Horse for Sale -Gorgeous chestnut mare - has had beautiful palomino offspring by The Gold Rush Is On - she will pay for herself in breedings - great set of papers - very fluid moving mare.
SOLITAIRE'S APRIL MAGIC - Tennessee Walking Horse for Sale -Beautiful black mare - 10 years old - 15.3 hands - by Duke's Solitaire and out of a Pride's Royal Master - Ebony's Senator-bred mare - with a black stud colt by Generator's Showboat by her side - born 6/6/05.
Tennessee Walking Horse filly is by Mack K Shaker's Cajun - she was born 5/05 - and you can name her.
buyhorses.com /Links/TennesseeWalkingHorse.htm   (10494 words)

  
 Quarter Horse Mares For Sale - Quarter Horses For Sale - South Dakota Quarter Horse Mares - Speed rated mares
Shown below are our quarter horse mares and paint horse mares.
Pacs Lois Magnolia - 1987 sorrel mare - This quarter horse mare has some of the best old speed bloodlines up close and personal on her pedigree.
Harrier Queen - 1987 sorrel mare - This mare is AAA and is a race winner.
www.schimkeranch.com /quarterhorsemares.html   (578 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: Celtic Symbols
Nightmares, a name that is derived from that of the female horse, were thought by the Celts to be brought by a visiting horse Goddess.
In Scandinavian and Celtic cultures, the eating of horseflesh was, and is, taboo, with the exception of certain pagan rituals meant to celebrate or honour the Mare Goddess during which there is a sprinkling of bowls with horses blood to honour the Spirit of the Solar Year, Son of the Mare Goddess.
In Celtic culture, the Goddess Epona was depicted riding a horse, or sometimes a hornd goose, through the sky.
www.irelandsown.net /epona.html   (578 words)

  
 Epona, the celtic Goddess of the Horse
Epona was the Celtic lunar goddess and the goddess of horses, whose authority extended beyond death as she accompanied the soul on its final journey.
As the goddess of horses, Epona had specific significance and power, for horses were rare, and a sign of importance and value.
Epona is mostly portrayed sitting side saddle or lying on a horse, or standing with multiple horses around her.
www.eponas-playground.com /english/epona.html   (578 words)

  
 Epona Goddess of Horses
A women-hating man named Furius Stellus had relations with a mare, who in turn gave birth to Epona, who had the ability to take human or horse form.
Known as Rhiannon in Wales, Macha in Ireland and Epona to the Gauls this ancient horse goddess is one of the most well known of all the Celtic gods and goddesses.
Horses played an important role in Celtic society.
hippeesandee.com /enchant/epona.htm   (578 words)

  
 Epona
Epona was variously depicted with, seated on, or as a horse (most often a white mare) and her influence was widespread, even crossing into non-Celtic peoples.
Horse-totem goddess of the British and Continental Celts, adopted by Roman cavalry as their patroness, and the only Celtic goddess known to have been honored in Rome.
The horse Goddess was known and worshipped under many different names, each tribe having its own special title for Her.
www.dutchie.org /Tracy/Epona.html   (578 words)

  
 Mare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In English, a mare (an old Germanic word) is a female horse; the word is also an etymological root of marshal (originally a 'horse servant').
Mare is an atoll in the Loyalty Islands.
Thus, the Lunar mare is an ancient basaltic lava floodplain on Earth's Moon, usually inside an impact basin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mare   (161 words)

  
 Foundation Mare: Nabinabah Comma
If we look at her pedigree she is by the Bobbie Bruce horse MUSTER who was out of Alex Wiseman's good campdraft mare Mopsy and by the legendary Bobbie Bruce.
This horse has proved an outstanding sire for his owners producing most of the Laws' current top mares and also sire of PALMERS FUNNY FACE, Champion Led Mare RAS Sydney.
Nabinabah was by Piccadilly, an imported Thoroughbred horse, from Heroic Lass, a mare who won several races in Melbourne and was by the champion racehorse and sire, Heroic.
www.ashs.com.au /ashspotlight/article_ncomma.htm   (161 words)

  
 Pedigrees from the General Stud Book 1891 - Part 4
Honeywood's two True Blues, the elder of them was the best Plate horse in England for four or five years; the younger was in a very high form, and got the Rumford Gelding, and Lord Onslow's Grey Horse, middling horses, out of road mares.
There is an original Portrait of this Horse in Lord Cholmondeley's collection at Houghton; on comparing which with Mr Stubbs's print of him, it will be seen that the disproportionately small limbs, as represented in the latter, do not accord with the painting.
Whether he was an Arabian or a Barb is a point disputed (his portrait would rather lead to the latter supposition), but his excellence as a stallion is generally admitted.
www.bloodlines.net /TB/Notes/GSBPart4.htm   (161 words)

  
 White Horse Tavern, Allegheny Twp.
All the horses were taken except one white mare that escaped and ran off into the mountain, where it lived among the wild beasts of the forest and field.
White Horse Mountain is one of the beautiful sights to behold in Allegheny Township.
Some thought the white mare was a ghost of the animal which was hunting the area in which the raid had occurred.
www.rootsweb.com /~pasomers/allegheny/whitehor.htm   (161 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Night Mare : (#6) (Xanth Novels (Paperback)): Books: Piers Anthony
What happens to a horse who no longer can deliver these night mares to others?
Special horses, night mares deliver them to Xanthians.
Although the Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth, Mare Imbrium discovered that ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345418549?v=glance   (1325 words)

  
 Mare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In English, a mare (an old Germanic word) is a female horse; the word is also an etymological root of marshall (originally a 'horse servant').
Mare is an atoll in the Loyalty Islands.
Thus, the Lunar mare is an ancient basaltic lava floodplain on Earth's Moon, usually inside an impact basin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mare   (1325 words)

  
 Horse Goddesses
She was a threefold deity who was able to look n three directions at once as she had the heads of a serpent, a dog and a horse.
She became Hippia and gave birth to a horse named Arion and to the Goddess Despoina (a form of Artemis).
Aine : She was once the sun goddess or "red mare" of ancient Ireland.
www.horsegoddess.co.uk /horses.html   (1325 words)

  
 Horse Plaque
Gallic (Celtic France) mare goddess, goddess of horses.
Her name apparently derives from a Celtic word for "horse" or "mare".
Later adopted by the Romans as a goddess of horses and cattle, she was particularly popular among the Roman cavalry, and was apparently the only Celtic goddess to be worshipped in Rome itself.
www.sidhering.com /celtic/hsplaque.htm   (1325 words)

  
 CMK Arabian Horses: CMK Mare Families
The timeless quality of CMK mares should be obvious to all fanciers of the Arabian horse, but it would appear to fall to a few to recognize that an effort must be made to conserve the identity of these irreplaceable lines for posterity.
THE FIRST ARABIAN MARE TO come to North America and leave modern descent, and the oldest mare in the Arabian Horse Registry of America, is *NAOMI, foaled in England in 1877.
Ten years after her importation, half the horses at the Kellogg Ranch would be descended from *FERDA, such was the value of this FERIDA line mare.
cmkarabians.com /articles/CMKDAMLines.html   (1325 words)

  
 Florizel II
Their dam, Perdita II, was a good racemare who had begun life as a selling plater (the English equivalent of a claimer), and was sired by the important staying influence, Hampton.
Florizel II was a big horse, fully 16.2 hands, a brown with white ankles on his left front and left hind.
Florizel II also appears to be a more attractive horse than his brother Persimmon, who had a plain head and lop ears.
www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/Florizel2nd.html   (1325 words)

  
 Pharaoh's Egyptian Arabian Horses
As there was a horse named Leila already registered in the Arabian Horse Club and its against the regulations of the club to add a surtitle to a name once registered, the mare was named after the steamer and so registered".
For the little maiden mare known as Leila II, soon to leave her native land of Egypt, the name was hauntingly suitable.
When the mare finally arrived in the U.S.A. sometime 1931, the RAS Import Certificate would have been presented, showing the age of the mare as 7 years old, but no year of birth.
www.egyptian-arabian.com /papyrus/exochorda2.shtml   (1325 words)

  
 Homesteading Today - how often do you float horse's teeth?
If a horse's teeth meet equally and very normally (which many of them do not) then they do not develop the sharp edges and points that need to be filed off.
On the other extreme, I have an old mare that is probably in her mid-20s that I got on a trade and keep as a tease mare for the stallions and the previous owner had never had her floated and had owned her for 6 years.
Young horses usually don't need it all that often but older horses can require floating more regularly.
www.homesteadingtoday.com /vb/showthread.php?t=66879   (522 words)

  
 Hanoverian Horse Happenings - Equiworld Magazine April 2004
His dam, SPS Worcester, was a Ratje-Niebuhr National Hanoverian Mare Show class winner and had an 8.33 on her Mare Performance Test with a 9.0 in the dressage scores.
We have been very pleased with the previous two Contucci foals from Tiramisu; we have kept the 1999 foal to replace Jo Ann's riding horse and the 2000 gelding, Clipper, has been trained and is owned by a dressage instructor who is thrilled with his potential.
In this piece, we compare the 2003 Hanoverian Breeding Statistics from the German Verband Hannoverscher Warmblutzuchter and the American Hanoverian Society (including Canada).
www.equiworld.net /uk/ezine/0404/vistaridge.htm   (747 words)

  
 mare
In English, a mare (an old Germanic word) is a female horse; the word is also an etymological root of marshall (originally a 'horse servant').
Mare Island is located on the western edge of the City of Vallejo in southwestern Solano...
MARE's build a fish MARE's build a fish This Internet site, developed for grades 4 to 8, is an interactive, inquiry-based activity that explores how adaptations help fish survive in different habitats.
www.nieddu.biz /mare   (668 words)

  
 El Brio Vanner
Feathers is by Laddie out of the White Faced Mare, a daughter of The Original Kent Horse.
Feathers foaled out a colt in June 2004 by Romany Prince, a son of the incredible Old Horse.
Feathers is a 1997 mare who will be coming over with Mariah in December.
www.elbriovanner.com /Mares.htm   (239 words)

  
 POA.html
Horse For Sale - (POA) Holly - She is a calm mare great for kids - This mare is a registered POA and might be foaling this April.
Horse For Sale - (POA) miss molly - molly, 30 days riding - Molly has 30 days riding she will need some on to ride her and finish the job she is gental, and willing to learn she is a small p.o.a.
Horse For Sale - (POA) Hifive Little Buckaroo - Very cute POA colt that was born solid but looks like he will color - Hifive Little Buckaroo is a 2001 registered POAC chestnut colt with a few white hairs on his hindquarters and it looks like he will color.
horse.classifieds.equine.com /horses/POA.html   (19846 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Modern Horse Breeding: A Guide for Owners
Part 2, Practical Aspects, will help you understand: the right and wrong reasons for breeding a horse; financial matters; the foundation stock; sending the mare to stud; care of the pregnant mare; what happens after breeding.
Modern Horse Breeding is unique in that it is presented in two parts.
Easy-to-read, reliable, and up-to-date, Modern Horse Breeding includes warnings about when to call in expert help, points out the signs of impending problems, and details the foaling process starting a month beforehand.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585743895?v=glance   (580 words)

  
 Steyskal Stables, Stan & Mary Kay, Nebraska, Boyd Flick Family, Tiger Leo
This mare was sired by a Percheron Stallion and her dam was a race mare known as the Mundell Mare.
Leota Flick is the dam of the mare Leota Flame.
This mare was a lot like her half brother in that she had 60 starts on the track with 11 wins, 16 seconds and 7 thirds.
www.steyskal.com /articles/boyd_flick.cfm   (580 words)

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