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A phaeton (also phaéton) was a form of sporty open carriage popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Drawn by one or two horses, a...

would be drawn by a pair of horses with a pole, but in contemporary times are pulled by a single horse. Tangas were popular before the advent of automobiles...

A cabriolet (alternatively cabriole: 32 ) is a light horse-drawn vehicle, with two wheels and a single horse. The carriage has a folding hood that can...

with the carriage. In 1645, Nicholas Sauvage, a coachbuilder from Amiens, decided to set up a business in Paris hiring out horses and carriages by the hour...

four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing). The horses were placed on the facade...

specialized in draft horses and carriage horses. They mainly settled in the west, in Basse-Bretagne, Trégor and Léon. The Breton draft horse, a renowned working...

stylish carriage horses to keep their heads up, at times to an extreme degree, depending on the fashion of the time. Today it is used primarily for horse show...

replaced horses in the early twentieth century. Mews are usually located in desirable residential areas, having been built to cater for the horses, coachmen...

long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are drawn by six horses. Commonly...

from the breeching to the collar which stops the pull from riding up and hitting the horses in the face when descending a steep incline. Carriage horse harnesses...

The speaker of Dickinson's poem meets personified Death. Death is a gentleman who is riding in the horse carriage that picks up the speaker in the poem...

The presence of horses in Breton culture is reflected in the strong historical attachment of the Bretons to this animal, and in religious and secular...

domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, which are horses that never have been domesticated...

In a 1908 profile in The Sunday Star—the sole detailed narrative of the event—West said that he arrested Grant for speeding in a horse-drawn carriage after...

caught on the shanks. Winkers or blinkers, also called "blinders", are partial eye blocks used primarily on driving horses and some race horses that prevent...

producing riding horses of the same renown as their carriage horses. The first foreign stallion imported to improve the riding horse qualities of the Oldenburg...

horse driving trials) is an equestrian sport involving carriage driving. In this discipline, the driver sits on a vehicle drawn by a single horse, a pair...

immediately to his person. The establishment of carriage-horses was divided into relays; each relay being composed of three sets of horses. Each brigade...

However, horses bred to be closer to the original carriage-horse type are taller, approaching 16.1 hands (65 inches, 165 cm). Lipizzans have a long head...

blinkers on horses, concluding that this use is likely to cause accidents at night due to interference with "the full use of" a horse's ability to "see much...