North East Carriage Driving Association - 21st and 22nd August 2010 - 21 Aug 2010
Carriage driving will be taking place around the parkland of Newby Hall.
Opening times as normal, 11.00am - 5.30pm.
Normal Admission apply.
Saturday - Dressage Competition
Sunday - 'Marathon'- Carriages will be racing around the estate, a carriage will leave every 4 minutes.
While there is some anthropological evidence that horses were ridden before they were driven, the most unequivocal evidence of domestication and use of the horse as a driving animal are the Sintashta chariot burials in the southern Urals, circa 2000 BC. However, shortly thereafter, the expansion of the domestic horse throughout Europe was little short of explosive. In the space of possible 500 years, there is evidence of horse-drawn chariots in Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. By another 500 years, the horse-drawn chariot had spread to China.
