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	<title>The Antique Horse</title>
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	<description>Collecting equestrian history</description>
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		<title>Tie-Up Bobbins</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=240</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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These things sit in my office &#038; intrigue all who see them. I have heard them described as &#8220;Tie Up Bobbins&#8221;, &#8220;Manger Balls&#8221;, &#8220;Tying up blocks&#8221; and &#8220;Manger blocks&#8221;.
They date back to a time when there were many working horses, particularly in towns and cities. Many of these horses would have been housed in stalls, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horseshoe Case</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=222</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Military horse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[military]]></category>

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For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
A rhyme that dates back centuries. Today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unusual Sidesaddle Cane</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=214</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Antique Whips]]></category>
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The Swiss Army knife of sidesaddle canes ?
 The handle of this cane is both a spur and a hammer (sometimes known as a locksmasher &#8211; although it looks a bit dainty to smash many locks&#8230;).
I had seen this design in old saddlery catalogues, but was excited to get the chance to buy one.
Sidesaddle canes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steam Transport &amp; Horses</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=205</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hunt Appointments]]></category>
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This is a poster for the hunting season from the Great Western Railway. 
It advertises reduced rates for horses and for grooms &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure what that says about grooms&#8217; status at the time&#8230;
After an afternoon trawling the internet for references I have seen several examples of purpose-built horse boxes for the railways. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to relax in the saddle</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=197</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 17:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How&#8217;s this for a piece of advice in a book ?

&#8220;&#8230; avoid particularly a rigid neck which means contraction of the muscles. Smoke a cigarette if one feels inclined to stiffen the neck.&#8221;
- I&#8217;m not making this up &#8211; here&#8217;s the extract

It comes from a gloriously non-PC small book called &#8220;The Rudiments of Riding&#8221; by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Recycling Farrier ?</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=191</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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How&#8217;s this for recycling?
This set of hoof pincers have been made from a pair of old files or rasps. You can see the ridges of one file in the detailed image below.
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They are probably late nineteenth or early twentieth century. I think they show an ingenious use of materials &#038; skill.  New tools were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse Tack in Art</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=182</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 20:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Stirrups]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I attended a continuing education day about vaccines. It was held at the Royal Society, near Trafalgar Square, so I took the opportunity to visit the National Gallery. Everyone looks at different things on visiting a gallery &#8211; personally I obsess over still lives of vegetables &#038; horse tack in paintings.
Horses feature in many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antique Drenching Bit</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=172</link>
		<comments>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=172#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Horse Bits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[veterinary]]></category>

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Medicating horses has got so much easier &#8211; or so I tell myself as I scrape worming paste out of my hair. And I do wonder how effective a wormer is once it has disappeared up a horse&#8217;s left nostril.
 I was fascinated to learn about an &#8220;Easy wormer&#8221; bit on one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse Bits &amp; Charities</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=162</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Horse Bits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooke]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gambia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mameluke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ring bit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spring finally seems to be here &#8211; good. And the end of the financial year, which means an inventory check &#8211; not so good. Somehow I acquire stuff at a much faster rate than I can catalogue or photograph it. I finally started to go through a few boxes of rusty bits &#038; spurs that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whip construction</title>
		<link>http://www.sportingcollection.com/blog/?p=151</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antique Whips]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[antique]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[whalebone]]></category>
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This whip has a beautiful silver handle &#038; collar, decorated with cast coiled serpents.
Unfortunately the covering of the shaft or stock has suffered some damage.  Looking on the bright side &#8211; this does let us look at the construction of an antique whip.
The body or core of the whip is made of whalebone or [...]]]></description>
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