And another bit of news from the April 10, 1897, issue of The Rider and Driver … with just a little bit of editorializing on Rider and Driver’s part:

A Chance for Quaker City Cabbies

The managers of the Philadelphia Horse Show have decided to again introduce the class open only to cab horses, which created such rivalry last year [in 1896] between the Quaker City Cab Company, the Standard Cab Company, and the Pennsylvania Railway Cab Company. Each of these companies has been making special preparations this year. Others that were not in the competition last year have entered, and surprises are likely to be everywhere present in the competition.

The horses are required to be over 15 hands high. They must be before a four-wheel cab, which must have been the property of the livery stable or cab company at least one month previous to the show. Horses will count for fifty percent, and appointments fifty percent.

The patrons of these companies are likely to fall in a faint when they behold at the exhibition what could be turned out for their luxury and convenience as compared with what is now put at their disposal by the cabbies.