Burmese (horse)

Burmese (1962-1990) was a black mare, Queen Elizabeth II awarded by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Elizabeth II rode the mare at the annual military parade ' Trooping the Colour' 1969-1986 in eighteen consecutive years, though the Royal Family at Trooping the Colour else appears with white horses.

Burmese was, Saskatchewan pulled to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCPM ) Remount Ranch in Fort Walsh. She was educated in Ottawa and in 1969 the Queen passed, attended as a representative of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police UK to perform at the Royal Windsor Horse Show.

The queen rode Burmese, as a teenager fired six warning shots during the Trooping -the -Colour- military parade of 1981. Although the horse was frightened, it could bring the Queen back under control.

Burmeses last public appearance was the trooping -the- color- Military Parade of 1986, after which it was retired. It was not replaced, the Queen decided to to go from now on in a Phaeton and decrease the troops parade from a podium.

Burmese came to the pasture in the Park of Windsor Castle. She died there in 1990. Both Burmese and Centenial were trained by RCMP Staff Sergeant Fred Rasmussen for the Queen.

In honor of the fiftieth year of the reign of Elizabeth II, the province of Saskatchewan commissioned the sculptor Susan Velder a larger than life bronze statue of Her Majesty on her favorite horse Burmese design. 2005 Bronze statue of the Queen, was unveiled in front of the building of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in Regina, Canada.