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Paddy

Wonder if it corners well on the rails?

Or leaks...

Or has a felt saddle.

Won't be very fast 1hp

elanfan1 wrote:Won't be very fast 1hp

actually not!! It defies logic but a horse is capable of working at a maximum of about 15 horsepower....

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Different size horse shoes front and rear

pharriso wrote:

elanfan1 wrote:Won't be very fast 1hp

actually not!! It defies logic but a horse is capable of working at a maximum of about 15 horsepower....

I think 1 horsepower is what a horse can keep up indefinitely ? (apart from eating (re-fuelling))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower

billwill wrote:

pharriso wrote:

elanfan1 wrote:Won't be very fast 1hp

actually not!! It defies logic but a horse is capable of working at a maximum of about 15 horsepower....

I think 1 horsepower is what a horse can keep up indefinitely ? (apart from eating (re-fuelling))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower

Wow, some days you don't learn anything:

"In 1993, R. D. Stevenson and R. J. Wassersug published correspondence in Nature summarizing measurements and calculations of peak and sustained work rates of a horse.[13] Citing measurements made at the 1926 Iowa State Fair, they reported that the peak power over a few seconds has been measured to be as high as 14.9 hp (11.1 kW)[14] and also observed that for sustained activity, a work rate of about 1 hp (0.7457 kW) per horse is consistent with agricultural advice from both the 19th and 20th centuries and also consistent with a work rate of about 4 times the basal rate expended by other vertebrates for sustained activity.[13]"