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but little for any lengtli of time. A clear-winded 

 coach horse will always keep his condition, and 

 consequently his health, because he does not 

 feel distress on a reasonable length of ground. 

 The hunter or racer is good or bad, chiefly in 

 proportion to his powers of respiration, and such 

 equally applies to the coach horse. The food 

 most proper, then, for a coach horse in fast 

 work is that which affords ample support, with- 

 out having a pernicious influence on his wind ; 

 or to use a more elegant, though not more 

 forcible, expression, that which does not 

 impair his respiratory organs by pressing on 

 them. 



To return to the fast coaches, so splendidly 

 were they horsed, and so admirably well did 

 they keep their time, that they fully merited the 

 following eulogium. 



At a dinner given at Shrewsbury some 

 five and thirty years ago by coachmen 

 and guards to the Honourable Mr. Kenyon, 

 that gentleman, in proposing the health of 

 Mr. R. Taylor, coach proprietor, made some 

 interesting statements on the subject of stage- 

 coach travelling. Among other remarks, he 



said : — 



" As a coach proprietor, Mr. Taylor was one 



