10) What type of animal is a devil's coach horse? ANSWERS: 1) George I, 2) They were married to ladies called Mary, 3) Alexandrina, 4) 15, 5) 44, 6) Copenhagen, 7) Roger Lloyd Tack, 8) Arkle, 9) America, 10) Beetle
Similar questions could be asked about frogs that change into princes or mice that become coach horses, and I envisaged an experiment that would help determine the answer.
"As time goes by there are fewer people to preserve this part of the past," says Bill, who started offering sleigh rides four years ago, but has trained driving and coach horses his whole life.
Broadway is below the notorious Fish Hill, which was a difficult pull for the stage coach horses. There were at one time 23 inns in the village to satisfy the needs of travellers.
A fly-fisher, pilot and driver of his own team of coach horses, Jenney grew up riding in timber races and, after a spell on Wall Street, bought Derry Meeting in 1967 when it was a dairy and arable farm.
Several firms made papier mache and skin-covered push and pull-along animals, such as a cow standing on a wheeled base that sold for pounds 380 or a pair of papier mache coach horses at pounds 160.