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🇬🇧 Britain's prime minister Winston Churchill riding a white horse in 1946 @facethenation Winston Churchill’s life was shaped by horses 🐎. On leaving school at 18, he joined the British cavalry. While at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Churchill had learnt to play polo. Churchill rode more extensively than any prime minister before or since 😳. He was in the saddle in England, Ireland, France, Spain, India, Pakistan, Canada, USA, Sudan and South Africa. Churchill played his last game of polo 🏇 at 52, despite having a weak right shoulder (injured in a fall when disembarking from the ship in India). ☝️ “No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle,” he wrote.