Briscoe, who captured Toyota's first pole in the Daytona 500 and cruised to a fourth-place finish in "The Great American Race ...
For the race, 78 horses were imported from Yugoslavia and Sicily. 13. Heston and Boyd spent weeks training to steer the four-horse chariot teams; in most of the shots, that's really the two stars ...
For the Greeks, chariot racing likely began sometime around 1500 B.C. and became a central element of their most sacred festivals. A memory of these early contests appears in Homer’s description ...
Chariot racing only really came in when the chariot's time on the battlefield was over. It became part of the Greek Olympic Games, and in Roman times chariot racing - as re-enacted in the film Ben ...