[Griff]

The "modern" horse drawn rig is evocative of a conversation I had last night with my kid's coach who was a big horseman. Just thinking about taking horses into a war zone after the advent of automatic weapons gives me a chill. My Dad's Uncles were teamsters in WWI, that couldn't have been a great scene for horses, but then again the Polish Cavalry was still hanging around when the Nazis came through. Of course, Tenneyson described an earlier missuse of horseflesh...