Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics three equestrian disciplines that took place in Hong Kong. Zara Phillips, the reigning world eventing champion and granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, had been included in the squad until her horse, Toytown, sustained an injury, which meant she missed her second successive Olympics. Great Britain qualified three fencers for the fencing competition. Two of these came from the re-allocation of places by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE), the governing body for Olympic fencing, after the withdrawal of other fencers. The Great Britain men's team qualified for the men's Olympic field hockey tournament after a must-win game against India in the
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse Class 11 English textbook of National Council of Educational Research and Training. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse ""The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"" is a short story by William Saroyan, published within the collection "My Name Is Sattu mc" (1940). It tells the story of two boys, Aram and Mourad, who belong to a very poor Armenian tribe. “The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse” is narrated by nine-year-old Aram Garoghlanian, a member of an Armenian community living among the lush fruit orchards and vineyards of Armenia. One morning Aram is awakened at four in morning by