That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 13, 2020

It was truly a miracle as Wojciech got the carriage across the river as the last of the ice melted.

“Madly off in all directions.”

Early wagon racing didn’t have any doping rules, so it was common practice to mix a little crystal meth with the horses’ feed right before the race.

♪♫"Wild horses

couldn’t drag me away.

Wild, wild horses…"♪♫

—Rolling Stones

This unfortunate early attempt at a vehicle commercial left the painter unable to DODGE the 4-horsepower CHARGER.

Quit horsing around you guys!

A souped up troika, with 4 horsepower.

A classic example of why no one should utter the words “glue factory” until the horses are in the factory’s corral.

And here we have the first Dodge Ram, steering issues (know as the death wobble)continued until the mid 90’s yet even today there are optional heavy duty steering parts available.

♩grandma got run over by a лошадь…

Headline: Artist Jozef Chelmonski was trampled to death while trying to paint a team of horses.

Improvised practice for the Iditarod.

возвращаясь домой из нашего дома, в канун Рождества

♫ Slip sliding away, slip sliding away, you know the nearer your destination the more your slip sliding away ♪

Ben Hur never let cold weather keep him from practicing !

And here is a prime example of why the Poles love Russia so much. ‘Polish-Russia’. AKA ‘that part of Poland that Russia annexed and then declared to have always been part of historical Russia’(Mind you, Poland had done something similar about 400 years earlier, so you can’t completely blame the Russians)

2 minutes after Derek’s girlfriend called and said her parents were gone for the evening.

Nov 5, 2020: In the dead of night, Vlad races back to Russia with Donald.

Dr. Zhivago making a midnight run…

When you have questionable stage driving skills, and you are approaching a fork in the road.

Look behind us, there is a huge red turtle shell coming right at us!

Before modern equipment was available, Bogdan’s junkyard used the classic ‘drawing and quartering’ technique to break up old vehicles.

“Thirty minutes or it’s free!” Domino’s Delivery – The Early Days.

One horse to another: Let’s find a place that isn’t so yucky underfoot. Over here.Other horse: No, over here.

Quit saying “Gee” when I say “Haw”.

Derek Bros. trying to beat their old time in the quarter mile.

“Ivan, SLOW DOWN! I can’t get the damn bong lit.”

Four-in-Hand or Through the Steppes: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J_Che%C5%82mo%C5%84ski_-_Czw%C3%B3rka_(1881).jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this huge painting. File history has strip coloration image.

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jozef-chelmonski 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Jozef_Chelmonski/11022406/Jozef_Chelmonski.aspx 

https://prabook.com/web/jozef.che_monski/3742946 

https://sztuka.agraart.pl/autor/licytacje/43/jozef-chelmonski 

http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Chelmonski/Chelmonski_bio.htm 

https://www.thekf.org/kf/about/gallery/artists/Chelminski_Jozef/ 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Google Chrome can automatically translate as necessary, and askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2513 (August 12, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

That’s what you get for getting your horses from The Revelations Ranch.

The fact that his horses could fly made it a lot easier for Yuri to win the race.

Runnin’ moonshine on Copperhead Road – the early years.

Driven hard by their terrified master/ the quadriga is fleeing disaster/ and the horses ARE quick/ but he still will get sick/ for the virus is vastly faster.

“Ah likes mah horses lak Ah likes mah women… a little loose!”

“Her chariot roared / At eighty per / They hauled away / What had / Ben Hur / Burma Shave”

Now hold that pose for an hour while I sketch it in.

The Russian version of “Ben-Hur” was not as exciting…