The A to Z Challenge: H is for Horses
Today I’ll take a break from my human characters (sorry, Harry!) and write in praise of their horsey companions. In 1911 there were over 400,000 horses in New Zealand—this at […]
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Horse-riding in the Dart Valley
It’s been quite a few years since I last went horse-riding. At one point I even took lessons for a year—mostly so that I’d be able to write with reasonable […]
New Zealand horses in the Great War
Between 1914 and 1918, New Zealand sent more than 10,000 horses to Europe to serve in the Great War. Only four of those horses ever returned to New Zealand, and […]
This week in New Zealand history: NZ troops in the Boer War
The first contingent of New Zealand troops embarked for South Africa on the 21st of October 1899. On the 9th of December that year, the New Zealanders had their first […]