Morgan L. Phillips was an old circus man who lived with his wife, a horse, and a few dogs in a canvas tent in an empty lot at 40 Cherry Street in New York City in 1893-94.
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1894: The Hobo Horse and Gypsy of New York’s Cherry Street, Part I
Posted: 21st December 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Horse TalesTags: 40 Cherry Street, Gotham Court, Morgan L. Phillips, New York History, Old New York
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1880: Hindoo, the Hall of Fame Horse That Raced on Avenue X in Sheepshead Bay
Posted: 6th July 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Horse TalesTags: Coney Island Jockey Club, Dwyer Stables, Hindoo, New York History, Phil Dwyer, Prospect Park Fair Grounds, Sheepshead Bay Race Track
“It is believed there is no track in the country so popular as that of the Coney Island Jockey Club, which lies almost in hearing distance of the ever-sounding seas…The drive to the track through Prospect Park and Ocean Parkway in itself is sufficient to put any one in good humor with himself and the […]
1912: Chief John Rush and Victor, the Fire Horse That Lost it on Varick Street
Posted: 10th June 2015 by The Hatching Cat in FDNY Horses/Mascots, Horse TalesTags: Battalion Chief John Rush, Chief Edward Croker, FDNY, fire horse, New York Fire Patrol
“It seems a strange irony of fate that a minor accident should have killed Chief Rush. I had almost come to think he bore a charmed life. One gets such ideas of men who pass through seemingly impassable dangers unscathed.”–Doctor Archer, St. Vincent’s Hospital, April 26, 1912
1899: King and Queen, the Diving Quadrupeds of Coney Island, Brooklyn
Posted: 7th May 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Horse TalesTags: Biograph Company, Coney Island, Diving Horses, Frederick S. Armitage, King and Queen, New York History, Roosevelt Building, Sea Lion Park
Billed as the amazing high diving horses, King and Queen were two pure white Arabian horses who had a knack for diving on their own from great heights into almost any body of water.
1913: The City Farm for Inebriates and Retired FDNY Fire Horses
Posted: 1st February 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Horse TalesTags: Board of Inebriety, Charles Samson, FDNY, fire horses, Mid-Orange Correctional Facility, New York History, Wickham Manor House, Wisner-Durland Farm
Part II of the Fire Horse Heroes and the City Farm “These old hero-horses, as I think they should be called, deserve a better fate than city pavements until they die of exhaustion. On the city farm in Warwick we have 800 acres of wonderful rolling country. We have a lake over a mile long. […]
