[drivingpairs] Re: Ben Hur
- From: "Donna J. Coss" <coss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 20:52:41 -0500
When you watch the movie again you might look at the horses and realize they
were all Shagya Arabians! This breed is wonderful for carriage driving,
dressage and jumping. It is a sub-species of Arabian, not a strain, as so
many believe.
The breed is 200 years old and most of the European Shagyas have very
little purebred Arabian, as its use is strictly controlled with breeding
rules. In the U.S., there have been several new importations and the breed
numbers are slowly climbing. The breed is very easy to train and
temperament is unbelieveable.
They were a breed bred for classic carriage driving by the Austro
Hungarian monarchy and they were the elite horses. Before WWII they were
breeding 3000 per year, after the war there were barely 300 survivors.
www.shagyasport.com
-----Original Message-----
From: drivingpairs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:drivingpairs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of noel jones
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 6:21 PM
To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [drivingpairs] Re: Ben Hur
".The climactic chariot race scenes were directed by notable stunt man
Yakima
Canutt. It was the most expensive 65mm shoot in history with just one foot
of
film making it to the final cut for every 263 feet of film exposed. Canutt's
son
was the Charleton Heston stand-in when his horses attempted to jump over a
spilled chariot on the course. He was thrown out, landing on the tongue
between
the horses. He scrambled back into the chariot, got the horses under
control,
and continued on in the race. The accident sequence looked so good that it
was
left in, complete with a Heston close-up as he climbed back into the
vehicle.
The only injury sustained was the stand-in's cut chin. The rumors that
Stephen
Boyd's double was killed are false.
...Some of the race sequences were filmed using only three horses per
chariot
instead of four. This allowed the camera car to move in closer, resulting in
the
destruction of one of the few, and very expensive, 65mm cameras in the
world.
--
noel jones, aago
athens, tennessee, usa
423 887-7594
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