Air Horse One is not an ordinary flight, it carries 12 horses that will run in the Oaks Race and the Kentucky Derby, CNET reports.
Air Horse One departed for Louisville from Ontario, California. A ticket on Air Horse One for this trip costs about US$5000 (R72 000) but for that these steeds get first-class treatment. The crew of five humans attends to the horses over the three-hour flight by feeding them hay and water and keeping the cabin at a cool 55F.
"It’s just a regular freight airplane but it becomes specialised when we install the horse stalls, the containers that hold the horses during flight," says Mike Payne, head of operations at Tex Sutton Forwarding.
Mike has been with Tex Sutton Forwarding since 1990. The company started flying horses in 1969 and operates the only horse charter in the country that lets the horses walk directly on to the aircraft, which is more comfortable for the horses.
