April 3, 2011
As you may have guessed from a few recent blog posts, I’m perusing old issues of Rider & Driver again.
I found these two photos of “an ingenious California trap” in the December 26, 1896, issue:
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Mr. M. Theodore Kearney's Combination Break, open
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Mr. Kearney's Combination Break, closed
March 28, 2011
For today: a beautiful (undated) French drawing of a design for a Vis-a-Vis du Prince Imperial.
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UPDATED to say that according to one of our CAA members in the Netherlands, this drawing is probably from about 1860 to 1865 (see Bart’s note in the comments).
March 27, 2011
March 8, 2011
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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February 27, 2011
As a quick reference for those already familiar with harness parts, or as new information if you’re not already familiar with carriage harness, yesterday’s post featured a diagram of single harness.
Today, it’s pair harness:
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pair full-collar harness (line drawing by Joy Claxton)
The Slower Road 