Lipizzan

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But, "The Lipizzaner is the Rolls-Royce of all horse breeds.

You can recognize one by its pristine white coat and canny, aristocratic glare.

Such a beast with all the trimmings, livery, pedigree paperwork, and punctilious ceremonial training can be about 70,000 pounds.

No other animal could be as fit to be owned by a king, and so it should be no surprise that in 2024, King Charles III received a pair of Lipizzaners as a coronation gift from Hungary.

The horses were handed oval, over to the royal mews by Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, the then minister-

There he goes

The pair, aged six and eight, and named Nelson and Ildiko, made the perfect present for Charles.

Some mares were pregnant.

Others were skittish after months of bombardment and relocation.

In total, roughly 650 horses, half of them Lipizzaners, were marked as ready for the journey, with only a few left behind.

American cavalrymen moved through the battle-scarred terrain still echoing with distant artillery and all around the farm the noose kept tightening.

The Red Army advanced relentlessly from the east.

Reed later said, We were so tired of death and destruction, we wanted to do something beautiful.

For his efforts, he received the Stinguished Service Cross, the U.S. Army's second highest military decoration, while Stewart was honored with the Bronze Star, a high-ranking U.S. military decoration, and a German-made drilling shotgun from Patton.

While the secret mission was already underway, Patton received an invitation to a horse exhibition in Austria and a request from Austrian military officer Colonel Alwas Podhasky to protect the Spanish riding school and its remaining Lipizzaners.

The fact that he had submitted his resignation...

And the Lipizzaner Stallions thing, obviously, was him admitting that he was wrong.

And he knows that his time is over and he's riding off into the sunset.

You're right, it probably should have ended with a little bit more... recognition that he was wrong, uh, especially, but I mean, I think you could also read, not that Jerry Bruckheimer and his crew probably intended this, but you could also read the fact that the Admiralty, the Admiral guy saying, you know, you were both right.

And that the amount of energy that I'm putting into bracing against it is, actually, I could just look at what's true and then think about what I'm going to do about it instead.

And as you say very often, then it is pivoting, isn't it? I wasn't expecting this year to be about a crazy Lipizzaner, but that's what's turned out to be the case.

And I'm very grateful that I've had that opportunity.

It just wasn't what I thought was going to

I, well, you know, the, I remember, I remember a, a, it was either Andalusian or, um, what's the other breed that I always feel like is an Andalusian, but it's not really? Uh...

Lippizaner?

Maybe.

Pretty.

Lippin- Lippizaner.

That one.

Um, I think it was an Andalusian though, and it was very, uh, insulin dysregulated and lived in South Australia, and it was a machine at getting, um, hay out of a slow feeding hay net.