Horse in Harewood's Terrace Gallery celebrates 'The Horse at Harewood'

We’ve learned to expect the unexpected in Yorkshire’s most innovative country house – but a live horse inside Harewood House?!!

To celebrate the final exhibition in this year’s season, 'The Horse at Harewood', 15 year old Daisy Ussher rode her pony Little Mickey Finn into Harewood’s Terrace Gallery.

Daisy was a member of Great Britain’s Pony Team at the International Three Day Event in Necarne Northern Ireland this year where she finished runner-up on the very same Little Mickey Finn. Daisy goes to Queen Mary's School, Thirsk and has lived all her life at Harewood, the third generation of her family to do so. Here, she is wearing the black and gold Lascelles racing colours, the same colours worn by winners for Princess Mary and her husband the 6th Earl of Harewood in the 1930’s and onwards.

And it isn’t even the first time there’s been a horse in the building. The exhibition includes a photo of a fancy dress party in the Dining Room, with two partygoers on horseback! In addition, Edward Seago’s portrait of a jockey in the Harewood colours is also included in the exhibition.

Horses have always been extremely important for those living and working at Harewood and those involved with the Estate. Hunters, ponies, champion racehorses and family pets have all played their part at Harewood and the exhibition celebrates this special bond. Many of the works have never been shown publicly and include images of the Lascelles family and other Harewood residents on horseback. Sir Alfred Munnings, Geoffrey Douglas Giles, Edward Seago and other works span the last hundred or so years of the Horse at Harewood. 

Read more about The Horse at Harewood exhibition.