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Apart from statues there are always the Mounted Police with their wise, patient horses whose 

 equanimity no amount of din or confusion, including brass bands and fireworks, can disturb. 

 Brought to a perfection of control by months of arduous training at Imber Court, these 

 magnificent horses help to handle vast crowds firmly but gently. There are still 199 horses 

 in the Mounted Branch of the Metropolitan Police, while the next largest mounted force in 

 the country is in Lancashire, which has twenty-six. It costs about £ 1 2 5 a year to keep a police 

 horse in fodder, bedding, shoeing, stable equipment and veterinary attention. 



