What's the story about the horse facing backwards with a slash on the 1st Air cav patch?
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Taz is right... OH what direction he is facing...well here we go. When patch is on the LEFT side the horse is facing the front. When the patch is on the RIGHT it means wartime service and the horse would face the rear. Army regulations do not allow modification of the patches, BUT..sometimes Divison level commanders allow a "mirror image patch" that would make the horse LOOK FORWARD on the "warpatch" on the right sleeve. The soldiers are only allowed to wear these patches while in the unit,(like 1st CAV or 11th ACR) but when they go to other units they have to wear the standard Army patch,(which would make the horse go backwards again). This policy changes back and forth all the time, lots of money for the tailors!  Korea lots of units were overrun, Ive heard this before. The patch was worn in WW2 where the 1st Cav fought in Pacific, I believe in Phillipines. I read a story in Soldiers Magazine years ago about the lady who came up with the idea of the patch (she wanted it to be the biggest patch in Army.)
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Here's an article from the San Diego Union-Tribune (2004)\n\nAppearently Sgt. Reckless was also mentioned at length in the book "Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul: Inspirational Stories About Horses and the People Who Love Them" (2003)
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Where did you hear this?  You may have misheard it.  There are a lot of "horse idioms" but nothing like you describe.  Perhaps it is "Wild horses would not play tag on tender hoofs" which would mean "No, I'm not going to do that"\n\nDoes that make horse sense to you, or is it horse feathers?  Either way, remember, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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A horse, just like my avatar.
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A big mean stud horse.
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"...but what the name of Horse it rode in on?"\n\nLaw
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Here's everything you can possibly wanna know....\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/tx2/horsecorral/horseanatomy.html
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I don't think there was any conspiracy  at the Preakness but those gates can be tampered with and I know of a particular incident at a lower class track many years ago.\n\nIt takes a person with a very well trained eye to even notice it but my uncle had a fellow  racetracker with a very keen eye that said he saw the gate of the winner open a split second before the other horses gates opened and that horse won as he was supposed to in a 5 furlong sprint.\nMy uncles horse(the favorite who had won 5 in a row) finished 2nd.\nAnother trainers horse with his own travelling jockey who always rode for him was knocked around by others after they couldn't buy him off like they had tried to.He finished 4th but everyone else heard about the bribe that time.\n\nThe guy with the keen eye could look at a race and tell you almost exactly what had happend and how every horse in the race had performed.\nMy uncle used to ask him to watch his races for him in case he didn't see everthing himself.\n\nBack to the gate.\n\nThey use strong magnets to keep them closed and the starter releases the current when he starts the race.\n\nYou can place a very thin piece of paper between these magnets on any particular gate and when the current is released that gate can open a split second faster than the others.It can't be blatantly obvious or everyone would see it and it would make more of a difference in a short race.\n\nThis would require some advance practice with the gate and the starter but that can and has been done in the morning.\nI am not an expert in exactly how they do this but I was around enough to hear a lot of things.\nI can still remember the names of the key horses and the crook who rode my uncles horse and the guy with the keen eye.\nThey are all dead now but they were exciting times when I was young.\n\nI don't think the magnet trick is a common occurence but I do know that there are many crooked things that happen at All levels of racing but it is more common at the smaller tracks.\n\nA horse can break through the gate and it is fairly commom.
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a horse walks into a bar.  the bartender says "hey bu.. bu... bu... hey bu... bu... buddy, why th... th... th... th... the long fuh fuh face?"\n\nwow, what a terrific audience!
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A horse.  I LOVE HORSES!!!
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dirty joke\nwhite horse fell in mud
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In this day in age...living in the "Sue Me" Century...I recommend not posting anything.\n\nThe riding stable has a huge "Use Facilities at Own Risk" sign.  They still got sued, and lost, because a kid got stepped on (by his own horse) and suffered a fractured foot.\n\nOh, he was washing his horse barefoot, with his Mom helping and in a swimsuit, when this occurred.
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That could mean several things.  I think it is more the way the jump is positioned and styled than it is the color.  You just have to make the horse DO IT.  I don't care if you have to take all the poles down and walk the horse through the jump and rejump by adding one pole at a time, you have to do it.  The horse has to understand that it must jump EVERYTHING.  \n\nGood Luck and Take Care
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Try that link pal,,,u well find some good stuff about the Grade 1 horse..
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I think it's on an angle.  Other jerseys on the team seem on angle.  I noticed this during Italy's game.
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The flag is dispalyed such that the mast faces forward. So, the "mast" of the flag is toward the front of the player, so the stars are also toward the front; so on the right side the flag is "backward", but on the left, it's "normal".
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They aren't backwards. Flags on uniform are sawed on as if "the flag is waving from the breeze." Meaning, if it is on the right (arm) side, the stars would be toward the front of the soldiers, making it look backwards. On the other hand, if it is on the left (arm) side, the stars would still be toward the front of the soldier, but it would look "normal."\n\nImagine running with a flagpole with the American flag. If somebody sees you on your left, it looks "normal." If someone sees you on your right, it looks "backwards." It is the same concept.