The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-08
THE CORONATION HORSES.
4 Visit to the Royal Stables at Buck
ingham Palace.
(London Tit-Bits.

In view OF the forthcoming corona
ton ceremony, a visit to the royal
news at Buckingham palace, where
amongst other sights, are TO be seen
the famous creams and King Ed
wards state carriage, is particularly
interesting. Armed with a permit from
Major General Sir H. P Ewart, K c.
B., the crown equerry, the writer re
Gently had the privilege Of being con-
Quoted over these stables by one of his
majesty's servants, and the latter was
kind enough to furnish little infOT-
nation about the kings horses and
carriages, which may prove new and
surprising TO the readers of this paper
The stables are built round a huge
quadrangle and cover altogether some
three acres of ground. On one side Of
the quadrangle are the coach houses
and on the others the stable and har-
ness rooms. In one of the latter is to
be seen the set of state harness used
for the famous creams" 1t is covered
with red morocco, the leather being
profusely decorated with gOld-plated
metal faCings of the most beautiful de-
sign and workmanship.
This set of harness, which the
creams" viii wear at the forthcoming
coronation, was first used by Queen
Victoria at her jubilee procession in
1889. Almost as gorgeous is the set of
black-and-gl!t harness used by the
Prince and Princess of Wales for the
six blacks" animals which are al
most as valuable and famous as the
creams" and which are generally
brought into requisition when their
royal highnesses go to levees, drawing
rooms. and other state functions. These
horses will also take part in the coro-
nation procession in June.
Altogether there are nearly 100 horses
kept at the royal stables. The major
ity of these, of course, are carriage
horses, used for ordinary purposes by
the different members of the royal fam
lily. All of them, however, are animals
Of the finest breed. valued at $50 to 200
guineas each. The famous creams"
and blacks and many of the other
horses, too, are bred at the royal stud,
Hampton court.
The stable in which the first named
are kept is, of course, one of the chief
attractions at the royal news, and
one could spend an hour OF two ad-
mtring the beautiful HanOverian
horses, which have been bred from the
eight presented years ago to our late
queen by the king of Hanover. They
share a large, lofty stable with the
Prince of Wales blacks" down one
side being stalls for ten creams" and
on the other side stalls for eight
blacks" although only eight of the
former and six of the latter are used
at one time.
Every horse at the royal stable has
name, which is neatly painted on
board over each stall. Queen Victoria
was IN the habit of choosing the names
Tor the creams" herself, and several
or her old favOrites still occupy a place
in the news. Kaiser, Premier. UNIQUE.
Schonberg, PistaChiO and Monaco are
the names Of nalf a dozen of the
creams, while amongst the blacks"
are to be found Black Prince. Don
juan Mulatto, Leighton. Rensburg and
Iugela. None of the latter animals
are less than sixteen hands in height.
While the creams" range from fifteen
to sixteen hands.
1t is a fact not generally known. bv
the by. that when the creams" reach
about 20 years of age and get too old
to take part in the state professions
IN which they play so important a
part. they are killed. and fresh animals
brought from the royal stud at Hamp-
1oll NJuiL- L ne DldCkS. however. are
sold when they reach a GER
tain age
Next to the stable in which these
famous horses are kept the carriage
houses are probably the most interest
ING buildings in the royal news. In
the first coach house which the writer
entered was the state carriage in which
lur late queen went TO the Duke of
orks wedding, and which will be
Used by the Prince and Princess of
wales at the coronation. This car
1age weighs about one and a half tons.
ana IS something like fifty years old. /
e IS made of oak and richly gilt after /
ne manner of the famous state car
lages. although. of course. il does not .
lear comparison in other wavs
those persons who have been for /
innate enough TO see the latter when it J
las passed along the streets of Lon
ion on various occasions have no doubt +
zen much impressed by the mag
llncence of King Edwards state car /
lage- 1t needs a closer inspection. /
however, to thoroughly appreciate its .