They vacation up in the Catskills.
Yesterday, the New York Post ran a story about a "horse hotel" in Monticello that caters specifically to Central Park carriage horses, who retire to the upstate farm for their mandatory 5-week vacations. Er, make that "neigh-cations:"
Working equines kick off their horseshoes and frolic freely at the Central Park carriage-horse version of Cancun: a farm in upstate Monticello.
"They absolutely lose it for the first couple of hours," said carriage driver Frank Rodden, who runs the Catskills horse hotel for the vacationing beasts of burden.
Central Park carriage horses receive mandatory five-week vacations, though most spend months relaxing, Rodden said.
And apparently, a Catskills getaway also featured prominently in last night's episode of Bravo's "Real Housewives of New Jersey." According to a recap in the New York Daily News, the reality show followed its cast to a cabin in the Catskills. Hunting, ATV-riding, and carousing ensued.
Reportedly, the New Jersey ladies of the show weren't impressed by the locals they encountered at a bar in the unnamed Catskills town they visited:
Afterwards everyone gets dressed to the nines to hit up the local watering hole, where they clearly stick out like a sore thumb.
"It was like 5th Avenue had raided the Catskills," coos Teresa, in between dirty dancing with Joe and trying unsuccessfully to hook her single girlfriend up with a hot date.
"Guys in Jersey have muscles, good hair," she explains. "I'm totally into looks and there was no lookin' there!"
Photo: "Real Housewives" go hunting. Image via the New York Daily News.
