Since its domestication - which, according to the latest findings, took place some time around the second half of the fourth century B.C. in southern Ukraine - the horse has unstintingly provided us with multiple services as a packsaddle, stud and harnessing animal. Before the widespread adoption of electric traction, the horse played a front-line role in pulling the first tramways in our cities and suburbs. In the following few paragraphs, we pay tribute to this most noble of working beasts.
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