Marco Polo reported, perhaps with some exaggeration, that a horseman could, by nourishing himself on his horse’s blood, “ride quite ten days’ marches without eating any cooked food and without lighting a fire.” And because its milk offered additional sustenance during extended military campaigns, a cavalryman usually preferred a mare as a mount.

Marco Polo described great parties hosted by Kublai Khan with as many as 40,000 guests. He reported that the Khan once received "a gift of more than 100,000 whites horses very beautiful and fine" and employed 10,000 falconers, carrying gyrfalcons, peregrines, sake falcons and goshawks, and 20,000 dog handlers.

2014年10月17日 · But Marco Polo would later not only grow into a good riding-type horse of sufficient size and volume – a half-bred looking like a Thoroughbred – but also into one of the greatest sires of the Netherlands, famous for his hereditary …

Marco Polo as a jumping horse supplier was Elzette, the horse with which Franke Sloothaak became KNF champion in 1973 at the age of fifteen. A year later, the talented young rider became Dutch junior champion with Polo Marco. Both horses left for Switzerland and they were successful in the sport there too.

2021年11月3日 · The first horse to really announce the arrival of a new jumping sire, Marco Polo was the mare, Elzette, who teamed with a 15-year-old Franke Sloothaak became Royal Dutch Federation Champion in 1973. The following year, Franke rode another, Polo Marco to become Champion of the Young Riders.

Marco Polo has raced at Belmont Park, Churchill Downs, Los Alamitos Day, Santa Anita, Saratoga. Marco Polo horse page with past performances, speed figures, results, pedigree, photos and videos. Marco Polo horse rating and status. See who is a fan of Marco Polo.

Marco Polo fuels the popular legend that Bucephalus, the majestic horse Alexander possessed since age 14, was actually a unicorn. So not only the conqueror wore horns, his horse did too. According to Polo in Badakshan there lived a breed of horses which were the direct offspring of Bucephalus and local mares.

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Thoroughbred pedigree for Marco Polo, progeny, and female family reports from the Thoroughbred Horse Pedigree Query.