Froggy, I also loved the story about your mom! I'd love to know even more details!

I'm personally glad they are not having the diving horses. I think it wasn't about nostalgia, but novelty and greed, and I can envision a slippery slope (pun intended) toward abuse of the horses.

p.s. As a lot of folks here already know, I'm one of the people against the carriage industry in NY as it currently exists. I spend a lot of time there and their work conditions are terrible. My sister who lives there, routinely sees the carriage operators running the horses through traffic along 8th Avenue at a racing trot. It's incredibly dangerous and remarkably stupid. In addition, the horses simply work too many hours. They are shackled, staring straight ahead for hours on end in the BOILING NY heat, rain, freezing cold and it's simply too much. I know many people disagree with me, and talk about about other terrible things that happen to horses, but one alternate type of suffering doesn't negate another and I can't rationalize that way.

Down in Florida, there are carriage horses out every evening at City Place. They are there for a few hours in the cool evenings and I have no problem with that. Anyway, I could go on and on, but I don't want to hijack my own thread and I'm hoping for more details from Froggy!!