MARKET CLASSES OF HORSES. 115 



horses with considerable style. Formerly 

 bussers and cabbers, taken chiefly for export to 

 England and France, and tram horses were ac- 

 counted distinct classes that tailed on after the 

 expressers, but the demand for them has disap- 

 peared and nowadays one rarely hears their 

 names mentioned in the trade. 



Gentlemen's roadsters have the type of the 

 trotter breedy, long-necked, elegant horses 

 suiting the light buggy or speed wagon and able 

 to go along at a smart rate of speed. In fact 

 the ranks of the road horse are properly re- 

 cruited from among the harness race horses, 

 both trotters and pacers, and to sell well a road 

 horse nowadays must be able to beat 2 :30, prob- 

 ably quite a good bit. Then these which cannot 

 trot or pace fast tail on down in all grades to the 

 cheapest sorts which are taken for the livery 

 and southern trade. Of late, however, the South 

 has been buying a better grade of driver, taking 

 business and pleasure horses at $160 to $185, 

 whereas the demand from south of Mason & 

 Dixon's line was formerly for cheap lots at $65 

 to $115. 



Heavy harness horses are divided into two 

 sorts the park horse and the carriage horse, 

 the runabout horse being a sort of hanger-on to 

 the skirts of both. The park horse runs in 

 height from 14.3 hands to 15.2% hands, and the 

 carriage horse from 15.3 hands upwards. At 

 least that is the distinction drawn for these 



