Animal transporter

Usage examples of horsebox.

We did sometimes come across animals that no amount of persuasion or brute force would get them up a ramp into a horsebox.

So now we have the Flat season about to start and all the Chester Vase and Dante Stakes contestants this year are strong and healthy still, so you set off with the rabbit to fetch Benjy Usher's colt from Milan, and on the way back you stopped at the Ecurie Bonne Chance, and what will you bet that in the tube container above the fuel tanks of this horsebox we'll find a rabbit with ticks on?

The sort of horseboxes she would have been driving had home-from-home large living quarters in front of the stalls, the nomadic luxury motors for eventing at Badminton and Burleigh.

The bulk of one of the two largest in my fleet of horseboxes stood reassuringly in the shadows out on the tarmacked parking area, the house lights raising gleams along its silvery flank.

The front cabs of big horseboxes were always pretty roomy, having to accommodate several attendants besides one or sometimes two drivers.

Day after day, all over the country, fleets of horseboxes like mine ferried all the runners to the races, most days about a hundred runners to each meeting, on bad days, down to, perhaps, thirty.

I'd been driving horseboxes by the age of eighteen for my father, who had owned his own transport.

What had once been a cowshed was now a small canteen and a suite of three offices with windows looking into the farmyard, from where one could watch the horseboxes come and go, each to and from its own allocated parking space.

Benjy, like many owners, preferred the higher prize-money of mainland Europe, but he chose still to live in Pixhill and to train for other people as a hobby and to use my horseboxes for his transport, a fact guaranteed to earn my approbation.

Like most jobs in racing, driving horseboxes was more a way of life than simply a means of earning a living and, as a result, only people who enjoyed it, did it.

I'd acquired his services as a fixture or fitting along with the farmyard and the horseboxes, the transaction apparently to his liking: and I'd counted myself lucky to have him and didn't now know where I would find anyone else as expert, undemanding and committed.

The farmyard gates still stood open, but to my almost sick relief the horseboxes themselves were untouched.

I explained that as my horseboxes went fairly regularly across the Channel, I wanted an up-to-date list of what could and could not be carried in them, in view of the ever-changing European regulations.

I rubbed my nose, thought a bit more, and began to bring to the screen the horseboxes themselves, one by one, identifying them by registration number.

I took him to the farmyard, though, and showed him the horseboxes which impressed him by their size.