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In the wake of Ryder’s accident, the carriage horse industry itself has called upon the city to step up oversight.

Its requests include a full-time city equine veterinarian, updated rules and training for drivers and the creation of a carriage horse stable inside Central Park.

In her box stall on 52nd Street, Fintzi’s shaggy draft horse Stella, a Chicago carriage horse until that city banned the practice in 2020, nibbled hay on a recent afternoon.

Carriage horse owners insist every effort is made to care for the animals in retirement or place them in new permanent homes.

Bobby was identified as a former Manhattan carriage horse by the numbers engraved in his hoof.