New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-06
THE QUEENS HORSES.
WHERE THEY LIVE AND HOW THEY ARE
USED.

IN be Unborn i'm every American, IL IS strange ""o
50 few of the Transatlantic tourists should ava"
themselves of the opportunity of inspecting inc
royal and imperial stables of Europe. Inc aver
age American certainly understands horses anu 10
more interested about them than he is about pic"
ures and old masters, and yet not one III every
thonsand of those who take the trouble to visit
the galleries and state apartments OF royalty ever
dream of CHANGING over the superb stables OF the
latter This is a mistake, for horses constitute
one of the pet Injuries Of kings and emperorS
The practically unlimited resources Of the oiu
World monarchs and the grand opportunities OF
acquisition which they enjoy enable them 10
crafty their tastes in this direction in manner
which is far beyond the means and possibilities OF
ordinary citizens, and the cream-coored horses oi
Queen Victoria, the "Orlohs' Of the Czar, thc
Trakeucrs7 of Emperor Francis Joseph ana tie
81 Mecklenburgers" of Emperor William are each
in their way matchless.
Oneen Victoria's cream hued horses reside in the
stables or royal news adjoining Buckingham fal-
ace The record of these beautiful quadrnpeuS
and that of their remote sires constitute an IN
tegral portion of the history OF the RUE OF the
House of Brunswick in England. Inc nIst teams
Of cream-colored horses were brought from han
over by King George ], and until Queen Vlc'onas
accession to the throne their successors "ere sup
piled from the celebrated breedingstud az the
citv If Hanover. When, however in the year
1887, Queen Victoria assembled the throne anu 'he
Crown of Hanover passed to Her Majesty's uncle,
Duke Ernest of Cumberland, the royal cream-co'-
ored horses ceased to be imported and were bred
in ENGLAND The Sacred Hanoverians, as the
cream-colored are called, are very rarely seen oy
the nublic at large save when taken out very
early in the morning for an airing on the Vauxhal
Bridge Road They do no work except on sta,e
occasions and remain ever untampered with. Ihey
are very snowy, dignihed animals, conscious Oh
their own importance, and look down on the DAYS.
blacks or roans in the royal stables with evident
pity and contempt. Unfortunately, although their
stamina appears to have improved by their long
domiciiiation in England. they are and have always
been rather soft" and apt TO waste away ana
die from every trifing ailment penalty of their
ultra.aristocratic and refined temperament.
There is no special reason given IN any treatise
Of Typography" explaining why the carriage
horses of the Electors Of Hanover should nave
been from time immcmorial cream-colored, out
as we can see for ourselves in old paintings that
cream color was not an uncommon hue In the
destrlers" of the Middle Ages, it is presumaDie
that some early Duke of Hanover may have
greatly distinguished himself on the battlefield
when mounted on such a steed, and that gratitude
to breed animals of the tint as the one which
had brought him such good luck.
Napoleon was the cause of the cream-colored
horses being abandoned on state occasions by
British royalty for black ones during the last
great war between France and EngIa and. In
1903 Hanover was seized and occupied by the
troops of Napoleon, and the French Emperor, who
hated King George III, and who, besides all his
genius and brilliant qualities, had an invinclole
propensity for approprating what pleased him most
among other peoples goods and chattels, stole the
Eector of Hanovers cream-coOred stud, to spite
the King of England Adding insult to injury,
the Emperor had actually the audacity TO have
eight crean-colored horses harneSsed to the gor-
geous and much gded state carriage in which
he and Empress Josephine were drawn to Notre
Dame TO be crowned. This was too much for
the infatuated English King, and in a paroxysm OF
rage he ordered the cream-hued stud at the
news in London to be discarded IN favor
of black ones. This state of affairs con-
tnued until the downfall of Napoleon in
1914, at which period the British monarch
claimed from the French Government the cream
colored stud stolen by Napoleon in 1903, but
every horse of that tint had mysteriously dis.
appeared from France and TO this day ii remains
impossible to discover what became Of them
The state carriages, which also kept in
buckingham Palace, ought to be scarcely less
attractive TO American visitors than the historical
"cream-coored" above mentioned. The "gilded
ark in which Queen Victoria rode 10 her cor
onation has q Sery noteworthy history OF its
own. and certainly is o most Notwithstanding
object 1t was built in 1851. 1t is seventeen
feet long, weighs four tons. and the figures Of
the four Trtons supporting the traces are OF eX-
Quisite italian workmanship. The panels are
beautifully painted and it is surmounted by
golden royal crown. The majority of the other
carriages in the royal coach-hOuses convey the
impression of being built on altogether too heavy
lines and in fact of lacking modern grace; but,
of course, are exceedingly stately and some OF
them extremely gorgeous in their appointments
They all however, look as if they had oeen
specially constructed for traction by the huge
CIevelands" which, until few years ago, were
the only horses used by royalty in London.
Within a stones throw of the news is the Royal
Riding School, standing in the superb garden at
the back OF Buckingham Palace. 1t is there
that all the Queens children were taught rdlng
by a riding master of the name of Meyer, whom
Prince Albert had imported for the purpose from
Darmstadt 1t is TO his instruction that must
be attributed the thoroughly German seat Of the
Prince of Wales and Of his brothers in the saddle.
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ride with the incomparahlv superior English seat.
The stables are under THE control Of the
Master of the Horse zone of the grand officers
of the IIousehold-who' at the present time is the
Duke of Rutland. lie changes with the
Ministry His deputy and the permanent
superintendent is Colonel Sir Charles Maude,
WHO bears the title OF Crown Equerry. IL Is he
who has the direction OF the royal stud At Hamp-
lion Court Palace, where annual and very profit
able sales are held of the Queens yearlings.
For her own personal use at Windsor and IN
other places in the country the Queen nvari-
ably makes use of fOur-seated barouche, with
rumble behind for the servants In attendance and
drawn by four invariably gray horses, less than
sixteen hands high, and ridden by two positions
i'm very sober liveries Ordinarily their jackets
are black. The carriage is preceded by single
outrider. and each side canter the two equerries
on duty These equerries, who are colonies
generals in the army, belong to the Department
of the Master OF the Horse The latter has numer-
Gus peculiar privileges, one Of which is the
Of rnNnl lNeries dnrinQ his torn of nllce. and