Tag Archives: Berlin
Honouring Berlin’s Workhorse
I wrote about the graffiti hoofprints that appeared around Berlin in 2006 in If Wishes Were Horses, but I didn’t know about these on Reichenbergerstrasse. A permanent memorial to the trammers of the city, maybe?
Fjord Escorts
This pair of Norwegian Fjord horses offer wagon rides in my neighbourhood every Saturday. They pass under my window six or seven times, causing me to run and look – every horse-mad girl’s Pavlovian reaction.
Riding in the Kaiser’s Berlin
I cannot help thinking that the Germans are more devoted to riding than any other Continental nation. I have not hunted in Germany, as I was there only during the summer; but I sold a good hunter to a German Count who was a fine horseman and a Master of Foxhounds. He told me that …
Introducing Children to Horse Racing
Hoppegarten is a beautiful old race course just outside Berlin, somewhat past its glory days (owing to the vicissitudes of German twentieth-century history) but still charming. I’ve been going there for years, and though there have been little indicators of fresh investment (smart new signs, posh ladies’ loos) the essential character remains the same. The …
Accessorize with Ponyskin
The Pony with Sugar Cube Eyes
Past Pluperfect Prestissimo Player of the Game
“Ever since he had drifted into India on a troop-ship, taken, with an old rifle, as part payment for a racing debt, The Maltese Cat had played and preached polo to the Skidars’ team on the Skidars’ stony pologround. Now a polo-pony is like a poet. If he is born with a love for the …
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Chukkah-vision
Polo at Maifeld
Thank you to Christoph Curvers and Annika of PACE Magazine for being my guides at my first polo tournament in Berlin. I’ll publish a few photos I took this week, along with some tidbits which are probably familiar to polo fans, but were fresh and fascinating to me, and may be to non-polo-ers who are …