Thursday, August 30, 2007

Unusual Horses #1 (From Buckles)


SAVE2292, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Hi Gary, this is obviously the same picture as yours above.
My knowledge of horses is nil and my father's was about the same but he was very good at dates and places. He wrote on the back of this:

"Linus" horse with long mane and tail at Pan-American Exposition- Buffalo, N.Y. 1901.
Sold to Frank E. Bostock and taken to England.

Posted by Buckles at 8/30/2007 06:23:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know - Personaly I found this photo So Fasinating ( but it is a repeat here )& the Hay Bales got so much attention / like the Wheel on top of the wagon - LOL

31 August, 2007 14:11
Vicki Sach said...

This horse was sold to Bostock & Wombwells' Menagerie and toured Australia in 1906. When the menagerie was auctioned in Melbourne on November 15, 1906, Linus was listed as not being available for sale due to "an horrific accident" where he broke his hip and was expected to be in a sling for the next several weeks*. I can't find out what happened to him after this but given it's almost impossible for horses to recover from bone breaks, it seems likely he died or was put down in Australia.
(Source: The Argus newspaper, November 9, 1906, page 9)

22 August, 2009 05:46

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