August 8, 2013
Sorry about my recent blog-posting silence. I’ve been so engrossed in finishing this year’s issue of the CAA’s World on Wheels journal that I keep forgetting to post anything here!
For today’s foray into the “my, that’s an unusual carriage” file, how about this nineteenth-century charvolant?
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August 2, 2013
I know this is only just the beginning of August, but we’re already working on some new CAA- and carriage-related gift items for this year’s CAA Holiday Catalog!
One of the new items (which I’ll fill you in on, once we have the proofs back) will feature these two — and three other — horse-drawn vehicles.
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A surrey …
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… and a hunting trap …
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July 18, 2013
A.J. and I wrote an article about the Cuts CIAT (which, as you may recall, we visited in May) for the August issue of The Carriage Journal. To illustrate it, I went through the several hundred photos that we’d taken over the two days of competition … and selected about twenty “finalists.”
These few, for one reason or another, didn’t make the final cut and so won’t be in the pages of the magazine, but I wanted to go ahead and share them with you here. I do still plan to post more photos from Cuts; needless to say, those won’t be the same ones featured in the magazine. I’m hoping to do this next week, now that the August issue is FINISHED. I hope you enjoy these, and stay tuned for more … both here and in the magazine!
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With the chateau in the background, Dominique Posselle (France), driving a mixed pair to an original-condition dog-cart built in 1899, is heading out on Sunday morning’s cross-country drive …
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Antonio Gutierrez (Spain) brought a traditional Andalusian turnout to the Cuts event. The carriage is a roof-seat break, built by Brewster in 1870. Here, he’s driving up to the third and final judge’s stop in the presentation phase …
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John Brown (Great Britain), shown here on the cross-country-drive phase, drove a pair of Gelderlanders to a demi-mail phaeton built in 1844 …
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This was the first year at Cuts for the Percheron stallions of the local state stud farm at Haras …
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Hugo Livens (Belgium) and his pair of New Forest Ponies, put to a 1905 derby cart, are shown here on the cones course. This turnout won the cross-country and cones phases, and the overall award, in the pair-pony division …
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July 9, 2013
I have three more photos to share from the small batch I purchased on Saturday in Paris (Kentucky). In this one, two ladies pose for a photo in their runabout-type buggy and one of them holds an umbrella. Their horse appears to be a bit on the shy side.
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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 