Budapest: driving horse farm and show

Arrived on the Pest side of the Danube river at 4 am and left boat for last time at 9:45 am. We check into the Sofitel later, but first we visited a horse farm to the east about 45 minutes.

I was skeptical at first about visiting a horse farm since we live next to ( Sagamore), but this was a warm blooded ( as opposed to cold blooded like draft horses, and hot blooded like Arabians, driving horse farm (4 in hand and 2 in hand), and we had a great show and lunch featuring the Hungarian favorite goulash soup, wine, meats and desert, accompanied by music.

The horse demonstrations included driving, riding, ox cart pulling, and what I can best describe as a circus act with a guy standing on a team of 5 horses as they ran around the track. Then there was the "who can spill less beer while racing around the track" competition, which was exactly what it is named: each rider held a mug of beer in one hand while controlling his horse with the other. One enterprising guy held a tray with the beer on it, and simply poured the spilled beer from the tray to the mug as he finished, winning the competition.

Turned into a nice afternoon, improved by the second day of sun in the last two weeks.

The beautiful ox team:

Well appointed stables:

Lunch:

Four in hand team: