Cob boards tram in Ireland
Horses travelling in lorries or trailers are a common sight, but in Ireland, equine transit has been taken to a new level.
On Thursday afternoon (17 September) a piebald cob was spotted on a tram in Dublin.
The horse was brought into a carriage at the Belgard Luas stop, before being spotted by the driver and led back outside.
“One lad brought the horse on and others started taking pictures of it,” tweeted @steoconnaughton.
“[The] driver went to pull off and saw it on the camera.”
He added that the horse was inside the tram for less than five minutes.
A spokesman for Transdev, the tram’s operator, said the horse was taken off the vehicle as soon as photos had been taken.
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“He boarded for a photo opportunity and left again,” they said.
“Its owner boarded it at Belgard Luas stop and it alighted same stop — there was no travel.”
They added that animals are not permitted on their trams, except guide dogs, and “certainly not horses”.
Shetland pony in car boot
Last month (6 August) horseandhound.co.uk reported that a pony was discovered travelling in the back of a car in Germany.
A woman was driving along an autobahn at Bad Oeynhau near Hannover when she was pulled over by police.
However, when police checked out her car — a Fiat Panda — they found a Shetland pony travelling in the boot. The pony was quietly sitting on a bed on straw in the hatchback of the car, much to the officers’ surprise.
“A patrol car team found a somewhat unusual horsebox,” read a police statement.
The woman reportedly told police officers she was planning to drive the pony across the border to the Czech Republic.
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Rachael joined Horse & Hound in 2014, initially as a digital sub editor then became part of the news team as a writer in 2015. The philosophy graduate studied journalism at the Press Association before working as a local reporter at the Brentwood Gazette. Rachael is now a mum of two and still loves all things equestrian, including hacking, dressage and jumping with her cob Bert. Rachael left the H&H staff to go freelance in June 2019, but still contributes to our magazine and website, as well as our sister magazine Country Life, among others.