horse enthusiast

Apologies for the absence over the past couple of days. I'm in the Munich airport in Germany... Although the past few days have been relatively un-horsified, we did manage to visit Nymphenberg, the summmer palace of the German royalty in the 18th century. Nymphenberg is famous for its carriage and harness collection, and its horse portraits--all exquisitely painted, of the royal riding horses with the southern Bavarian landscape (and often the Alps) in the background. I got some good names for horses--since all the portraits had a gold frame and the name of the horse (but not the rider) engraved on the bottom. One was Lucrezia, another Hugilosposa (his barn name would be "Hughey" I imagine), and yet another was Cosa-Sara. Cosa (obviously a mare, and one of the few grey horses in the portrait collection) was pictured standing by a small cafe table where lunch had recently been eaten. The horse was nosing around the leftover food and knocking over a wine glass.