What with the Cheltenham Gold Cup having been run last week, I wondered how, before the days of horsebox waggons and small horseboxes towed by cars, they managed to move race horses around the country for the various race meetings.
Or didn't they? Were horses only entered in local race meetings? I genuinely didn't know, but thought I'd look it up.
Apparently, they rode them, which must have been a severe restriction, and later transported them by horse drawn boxes, which caught on, as those transported thus were well rested and more likely to win. Later on still, it was by train.
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