An interesting footnote to the whole fandango is that New York City owes its fine robust water supply to horse drawn carriages. The water supply system and storm drains were designed to allow for daily (early AM) sweeping of every street in Manhattan, followed by a wash down from fire hydrants. As the horses disappeared, early in the 20th Century, the practice was discontinued. Around 1985, they made the horses start wearing diapers! My wife always wanted a ride in a Hansom carriage. Last summer we stopped in Freeport, ME for some sort of L.L. Bean promotion. Attendant thereto, you could get a ride around downtown in a horse drawn carriage for $20 bucks, so we did it, starting at the L.L. Bean main store. It was fun.
For me, it’s more fun to go out to the barn and saddle up my Canadian mare, Jessamine. Lots of decent riding right in the neighborhood.
Plus, I can take my S&W model 29 and an M4gery along for trhe ride.