Research can be a funny thing…this morning we started out trying to answer a question tied into 17th century Paris and along the way learned about the Fiacre (France) or Fiaker (Vienna). A Fiacre is a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire, usually pulled by one horse. The term Fiakr refers to a similar vehicle pulled […]
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Q. In carriage and coaching classes at shows, is it correct for the horses’ mane to be braided? A. At one time the Rule Book for the American Horse Shows Association was quite clear on this point, at least so far as the classes for Ladies’ Phaetons and Gigs were concerned. In both cases the
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Q. In an old magazine I saw a reference to driving three horses tandem. I have always understood a tandem to be two horses driven one behind the other, and three driven in this way to be a ‘randem.’ A. The word “tandem” is a Latin word meaning “at last” or “at length.” It is
