For today’s entertainment / history lesson, I found the following poster, which was being given away (in 1898) as a large (9 x 16 inches) engraving, to all new and renewing subscribers to Rider & Driver magazine. The artist was the same C. Gray-Parker whose drawing of a Goddard Buggy graces the cover of the March issue of The Carriage Journal: http://bit.ly/eHqNdj.

This collage of “Types of Horse Show Exhibits” features a Thoroughbred, a four-in-hand road team, a Brougham horse, a polo pony, a trotting sire, a heavy-weight hunter, a Hackney, a gentleman’s park saddle hack, a lady’s park saddle hack, a charger, a Percheron, a French “coacher” (coach horse), a trotting mare in racing form, a Shetland pony, a Shetland foal, and a high-stepping Gig horse.

You can see them all here, and then, below this first image, I’ve extracted and enlarged all the harness horses so you can see the differences between the various harness and the horses themselves.

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"types of horse show exhibits" (from the April 30, 1898, issue of Rider & Driver)

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