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drive on to his residence at Kemp Town, instead of 

 depositing them at the "Albion" Hotel, which was 

 the regular destination of the coach. 



The owners of these coaches make no profit out of 

 their venture, but very frequently lose money ; the 

 only time when they make any adequate return for 

 their expenditure is when their coach is taken off the 

 road and their horses are sold by public auction. On 

 these occasions these large studs of coach-horses fre- 

 quently realise very long prices, and as the hunting 

 season will shortly commence, they are very often sold 

 as hunters. As to their going in harness, about this 

 there can be no doubt, since they have been driven for 

 several months past, and their not being laid up is a 

 certain proof of their soundness ; in fact, I do not think 

 that people in search of carriage-horses could do better 

 than take a ride on one of these coaches just as the 

 season is drawing to a close, v/hen they will have every 

 opportunity of observing which are the best horses in 

 the various teams, and making their own selection ; 

 after which, when the horses are sold at Tattersall's 

 or Aldridge's, they can bid for them with a perfect 

 certainty of obtaining what they require. I have no 

 doubt that the sum realised by the sale of these horses 

 far exceeds what they cost when got together in the 

 first instance ; and certainly the men who horsed these 

 coaches which contribute so greatly to people's plea- 

 sure and amusement, deserve some reward for their 

 exertions. 



I have just come across a paragraph in the Morning 

 Post of Thursday, September 22nd, 1887, giving the 

 prices realised by the sale of the Windsor coach-horses 

 of this year, which is as follows : 



