The Hackney is a recognized breed of horse that was developed in Great Britain. In recent decades, the breeding of the Hackney has been directed toward producing horses that are ideal for carriage driving. They are an elegant high stepping breed of carriage horse that is popular for showing in harness events. Hackneys possess good stamina, and are capable of trotting at high speed for extended periods of time.
A Hackney stallion
Hackney stallion Danegelt in the 1880s
A Hackney Horse in a driving competition.
Flying Childers (1715–1741) was a famous undefeated 18th-century thoroughbred racehorse, foaled in 1714 at Carr House, Warmsworth, Doncaster, and is sometimes considered as the first truly great racehorse in the history of thoroughbreds and the first to catch the public imagination.
Flying Childers by James Seymour
James Seymour - "Flying Childers Galloping to Left, Bridled but not Saddled" (Yale Center for British Art)
The Flying Childers Inn, Stanton in Peak, Derbyshire