Curiosities of toil and other papers / by Dr. Wynter.

  • Andrew Wynter
Date:
1870
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Curiosities of toil and other papers / by Dr. Wynter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    653/662 page 317
    them are great, the cost is proportionate ; and many of the horses of this class to be seen daily in the Row are worth at least £250 each. On the other hand, however, our carriage horses are entirely our own. The splendid animals sixteen hands high we see on Drawing-Room days lining Pall Mall, St. James's Street, and lost in the distance of Albe- marle Street, are of the pure Yorkshire breed. They are purchased by the London dealers at Howden and Horncastle fairs; and the market is wholly in their hands, as the breeders will not sell individual horses, but lots of tens and thirties, fine-paced animals and second-class nags, which the dealers afterwards sepa- rate. This would not suit a private purchaser, any more than it would to bid for a lot at an auction for the sake of some solitary article contained in it. By this means the dealers wholly monopolise the market; and, of course, they make noblemen and gentlemen pay for the more select animals. The favourite .colour is dark brown, mottled with a still darker shade of the same colour, and with black legs. For a pair of perfect steppers such as these, £1,000 is by no means an out- of-the-way price. It often happens that two carriage horses may be perfect matches in all respects but their tails. The one may have a fine flowing caudal append- age, and the other may be curtailed of his fair propor- tions. In such a case the fashion with horses is pretty much as it is with our fashionable fair at the present moment; if Nature is not prodigal of this ornament, art is called in: the lady purchases her Alexandra ringlet,
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3