Horse riding at ancient Greece

Horse riding games spanned throughout the ancient times and were aristocratic in character. Naturally, the horse owners were rich and noble families who could indulge in horse breeding. Equestrian events included the following:

•Keles (race for fully grown horses with rider): This event was introduced into the Olympics in 648 B.C. and consisted of six laps of the hippodrome. 

•Kalpe (race for mares): What distinguished this event from others was that in the final lap the rider would get off the horse and run along with it to the finish line.

•Race for foals: This event appeared quite later, in 256 B.C.

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Where the horses domesticated for the first time

 Horses were domesticated 6,000 years ago in the steppes of Ukraine, Russia's southwest and west of Kazakhstan, according to genetic study.   


Then, as the study published in the journal «PNAS», the day passed more horses in Europe and Asia, where he played again with wild mares. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge, brings together two opposing theories regarding the domestication of horses, a subject that for many years the scientific community.   


Archaeological evidence suggests that horses were domesticated in the steppes of Eurasia and particularly in areas of Ukraine, in southwestern Russia and western Kazakhstan. Scientists estimate that people rode horses and took the meat and milk. 


  However, these archaeological evidence, such as traces of horse milk found on ancient pots in the steppes of Eurasia, contrast with studies based on mitochondrial DNA and suggest that horses were domesticated in many different areas in Europe and Asia.


To solve the mystery of Cambridge researchers looked at DNA from 300 horses eight countries in Europe and Asia.  


 The genetic material used in computer models designed to examine different scenarios for the domestication of horses. Speaking of Dr.. Vera Warmuth from the Department of Zoology, Cambridge, said: "It seems that the domestication of horses has its roots in the western part of the steppes and in the calm journey played with wild horses."  


 The theory explains why the mitochondrial DNA, which contains genes inherited exclusively from the mother, shows that horses were domesticated multiple times in many different places. Indeed, everything indicates that wild mares were part of a herd of tame domestic horses, possibly because the latter could not be replicated easily in captivity.

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