Džentlmen Bendl
The media have got ODS's Petr Bendl quite wrong.
Tally-ho! Squire Bendl (on the right) riding to hounds.
The public image of Petr Bendl is of a slippery rogue with a taste for high politics, rich blondes and Ivo Rittig. How wrong can you be! Mr. Bendl is really a country squire with a respectable one hundred acres (click here) and an enthusiastic member of the local hunt.
Here are the pictures to prove it. But what a turnout! He looks like a horse dealer after a heavy night's drinking. He has lost his stock and someone has sat on his hat.
Here is what Horse&Hound says about how to dress as a novice hunt follower: "Forget about red coats, gold foxhead pins, silk hats or any of the other fabulous peacockeries to be glimpsed in the more theatrical counties. You are aiming to look tidy and inconspicuous."
The homemade video from which the images above are taken shows Squire Bendl galloping out of control, trampling a hound with his horse and tugging on its mouth and for some reason unknown to me, on another part of its anatomy as well -his horse is a gelding.
It seems that Petr Bendl is not such a gentleman after all, and that the media image of him is spot on.
Tally-ho! Squire Bendl (on the right) riding to hounds.
The public image of Petr Bendl is of a slippery rogue with a taste for high politics, rich blondes and Ivo Rittig. How wrong can you be! Mr. Bendl is really a country squire with a respectable one hundred acres (click here) and an enthusiastic member of the local hunt.
Here are the pictures to prove it. But what a turnout! He looks like a horse dealer after a heavy night's drinking. He has lost his stock and someone has sat on his hat.
Here is what Horse&Hound says about how to dress as a novice hunt follower: "Forget about red coats, gold foxhead pins, silk hats or any of the other fabulous peacockeries to be glimpsed in the more theatrical counties. You are aiming to look tidy and inconspicuous."
The homemade video from which the images above are taken shows Squire Bendl galloping out of control, trampling a hound with his horse and tugging on its mouth and for some reason unknown to me, on another part of its anatomy as well -his horse is a gelding.
It seems that Petr Bendl is not such a gentleman after all, and that the media image of him is spot on.