If equestrians and carriage riders must eat, snack, and graze, and
truckloads of such ingestibles roll off and back on,
then the same needs must be met for the steeds.
Trailers of ponies come with their own picnic lunch . . .
Pallets of the sustenance roll off.
Ditto the straw.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
tugster: a waterblog 
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September 6, 2018 at 11:25 am
Daniel J Meeter
And does the manure go back on the ferry too? I used to live in South River, NJ, on the most southerly tidal creek feeding into Raritan Bay, and then into the Sixth Borough. It had a manure dock. Before the domination of automobiles, tons and tons of horse manure would be swept off the streets of New York, loaded onto barges, and shipped to the manure docks in places like South River, where the local farmers would eagerly load it into their wagons and take it back to their farms and spread it out. I’d love to see an old photo of a tug with a manure barge.
September 6, 2018 at 11:27 am
Daniel J Meeter
Haverstraw NY must have had docks for oats, and Tarrytown (Tarwe in Dutch) docks for wheat. I’m assuming at least.