July 7, 2013
This time last week, the participants in our third annual Carriage Festival (drivers, grooms, helpers, horses, and ponies) were packing up, enjoying the awards party, getting baths, and heading home.
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Next year’s CAA Carriage Festival will be June 27-29, 2014, again in the Kentucky Horse Park’s Alltech Arena. We hope to see you then, either here on the blog or in person!
July 6, 2013
Continuing on from yesterday’s post, here are the rest of my Sunday-morning-drive photos …
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Marilyn Zaetta, of Michigan:
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Dr. Susan Orosz, of Ohio:
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Polly Petersen, of Ohio:
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Jean McLean, of Canada:
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Martha Stover, of Michigan:
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Carol Cross, of New York:
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Harriet Cross, of New York:
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Vicki Nelson Bodoh, of Wisconsin:
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Gerben Steenbeek, of Canada:
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Michelle Blackler, of Iowa:
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July 5, 2013
Today and tomorrow, I’m going to share a whole bunch of photos from last Sunday’s drive through the Kentucky Horse Park and neighboring Walnut Hall Farm: the presentation-pleasure drive for our CAA Carriage Festival. I got photos of nearly, but not quite, everyone on the drive, and I’ll share them here in the order they drove.
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Sterling Graburn, of Kentucky:
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Lindsey Nevitt, of Indiana:
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Marcia Swehla, of Kentucky:
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Jim Leo, of New York:
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Dan Doran, of Ohio:
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Carrie Ostrowski, of Kentucky:
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Steve Holm, of Virginia:
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Dr. Thomas Burgess, of Virginia:
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Katie Whaley, of Kentucky:
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Patti Wolf, of Texas:
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Check back tomorrow to see the second set of photos!
July 4, 2013
The manager of the antique car show at our CAA Carriage Festival does his best each year to gather very early automobiles that help illustrate the transition from actual horsepower, and horse-drawn carriages, to engines.
Here are two excellent early examples from this year’s show …
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This 1907 Franklin Type G Runabout is owned by Edmond & Sharon Hudon. The Type G was produced from 1906 until 1913; it had a four-cylinder, air-cooled, twelve-horsepower engine.
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The horn on the Franklin Type G Runabout:
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The top of one of the headlamps, which are stamped with a maker’s mark from Amesbury, Mass.:
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The steering wheel, with its various gears and levers:
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This 1923 Auburn 643 Touring Sedan is owned by Bob & Sharon Piper. It has an engine that produces a whopping fifty-horsepower.
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The wooden spokes on one of the Auburn’s wheels:
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July 3, 2013
Misdee Wrigley Miller’s turnout — a Holland & Holland Park Drag put to a team of four Dutch Warmbloods — was picked by the judge and the Carriage Festival show officials and organizers as the most elegant turnout of the entire weekend (the winner of the show’s Concours d’Elegance – Tom Ryder Memorial Trophy).
Here are “before” (in the rain), “during,” and “after” photos, one of each, of Misdee and her team, from Saturday evening’s Coaching Division: Best Team class …
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The Slower Road 