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The whole film featured around 2,500 horses, and all of them had carers, trainers.
#CHARIOT RACES HORSES STARS MOVIE#
The splendid horses seen in the movie were mostly Andalusian and Lipizzans, and were brought from Yugoslavia and Sicilia. In order to follow the horses closely, cameras were placed on top of Italian cars. Again in 1714 her Majestys bay horse Star won a sweepstake of 10 guineas added to. The shooting of the chariot race scene took five weeks. Meijer sees the contests not so much as an opium for the people, but as a political barometer the Circus Maximus was the only place in the autocratically ruled empire where the supreme leader, the Caesar, was confronted with the people’s approval or disapproval.Īnd fortunately, Meijer is truly interested in the sport itself. According to the ancient authorities the four-horse chariot-race was.
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of ''chariot fodder'' who cleared the way for the star to being the star himself.
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He provides a wealth of statistics – the number of victories for the competing stables (the Whites, Blues, Reds and Greens), the prize money, the number of races held on a single day – and does not shy away from drawing conclusions, even on the basis of information found only in carefully preserved mediaeval manuscripts. He also tells of victories in races with chariots that had six horses. Meijer has made thorough use of scarce – and sometimes obscure – sources in his lively narrative. And because historians have until now tended to focus on the ‘bread’ of Juvenal’s ‘bread and circuses’, Meijer’s book explores previously uncovered ground. The subject of chariot races, the main act of Roman public life, also seemed an important companion to his previous book Gladiators. Such analogies are typical of the refreshing, down-to-earth way Meijer writes on his favourite topics. The comparison applies not only to their incomes, but also to their popularity and usually humble origins. In Chariot Racing, Fik Meijer presents the chariot racers as the soccer stars of the ancient world.