London Horses

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 125, 19 April 1892, Page 4

London Horses

In the Leisure Hour in an article on London horses the following ap. p ears . — The brewer's horse is the direct descendant, of tke great war horse of the armoured knights, and each one ot them could well carry four hundredweight upon his back." The bre.ver's horses do five miles an hour, and do fourteen to sixteea hours' work six days in the week. Hoare's only work their horses five days a week, and no horse is allowed to be out ten hours without being examined by the horse-keeper. There is not a horse in their stables ■weighini? less than sixteen hundredweight, or standing less tban seventeen hands high. The thoroughbred, race horse increases a hand in height every century. In 1700 he was thirteen han-'s high now he stands fifteen hands and a half; at this rate he will be as tall as a giraffe before very long. L% i s comforting to learn that the larger a horse gets the better temper he has, as a rule. The brewer's horse costs 18s a week to feed, and after he is thoroughly past work and done v,, he is exported to Germany and made up into sausages, and then sent back to to be consumed by the British public hs German sausage.