Skinner’s Horse at Exercise

Image credit: National Army Museum

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Skinner’s Horse was the first regiment to combine oriental horsemanship with western cavalry drill. It was trained according to a manual of English cavalry manoeuvres, translated into Persian, with Colonel Skinner’s own additions on musketry drill. This manuscript is preserved in the National Army Museum collections.

Tent-pegging, depicted here, involves spearing a wooden tent-peg stuck in the ground with a long lance while riding past it at a gallop. This difficult exercise is still practised by the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment of today’s British Army to demonstrate skilled horsemanship.

National Army Museum

London

Title

Skinner’s Horse at Exercise

Date

c.1840

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 62 x W 77.1 cm

Accession number

NAM. 1968-12-32

Acquisition method

purchased from the Parker Gallery, 1968

Work type

Painting

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