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A harnessed horse. A horse harness is a device that connects a horse to a horse-drawn vehicle or another type of load to pull. There are two main designs of horse harness: (1) the breast collar or breaststrap, and (2) the full collar or collar-and-hames. For pulling heavy loads, a full collar is required because it distributes pressure over a ...
A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle is a cart (see various types below, both for carrying people and for goods). Four-wheeled vehicles have many names – one for heavy loads is most commonly called a wagon. Very light carts and wagons can also be pulled by donkeys (much smaller than horses ), ponies or mules. Other smaller animals are ...
A surrey is a doorless, four-wheeled carriage popular in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Usually two-seated and able to hold four passengers, surreys had a variety of tops that included a rigid, fringed canopy, parasol, and extension. [ 1] The seats were traditional, spindle-backed (often upholstered), bench seats.
Carriage Association of America. / 38.150°N 84.517°W / 38.150; -84.517. The Carriage Association of America ( CAA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the history and traditions of carriage driving, and the preservation and restoration of horse-drawn carriages and sleighs. It is headquartered at the Kentucky Horse Park along with ...
Harness 1. A type of tack placed upon a horse or other animal in order to hitch it to a cart, plow, wagon or other horse-drawn vehicle. [1]: 101 2. To harness a horse is to put the harness on the horse. harness racing, trotting races The sport of racing horses in harness, pulling a very light single-person cart called a sulky. The horses ...
Phaeton (carriage) 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 phaeton typically featured a minimal very lightly sprung body atop four extravagantly large wheels. With open seating, it was both fast and dangerous, giving rise to its name ...
A brougham[ note 1] was a light, four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage built in the 19th century. [ 2][ note 2] It was named after the politician and jurist Lord Brougham, who had this type of carriage built to his specification by London coachbuilder Robinson & Cook [ 2] in 1838 or 1839. [ 2][ 3] It had an enclosed body with two doors, [ 2] like ...
Driving (horse) Driving, when applied to horses, ponies, mules, or donkeys, is a broad term for hitching equines to a wagon, carriage, cart, sleigh, or other horse-drawn vehicle by means of a harness and working them in this way. It encompasses a wide range of activities from pleasure driving, to harness racing, to farm work, horse shows, and ...