No. 11. 



The Carriage Horse. 



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THE CARRIAGE HORS 



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The Carriage FTorse is a cross of the Cleveland mare with a three-fourth or thoroujli-bred horse, possessed of 

 sufficient height and substance.— This is the coach-horse of the highest repute. His points are, substance well 

 placed, with a deep and well proportioned body ; strong and clean bone under the knee; his feet open, sound, 

 and tough. He possesses tine action, lifts his feet high, which gives a grandeur to his figure and paces : he car- 

 ries his head well, and has a fine elevated crest. 



The Horse. 



The best horsemen are to be found among- 

 gentlemen. They feel proud of the accom- 

 plishment of being good riders, and they are 

 early accustomed to the sports of the field. 

 With " all appliances and means to boot," 

 it would be strange if they did not possess 

 the best horses, the best trainers, and the 

 best grooms. But the mere traveller's horse 

 is comparatively a sorry affair, the master 

 having little spare time to see to the wants 

 of his steed, leaving him to the mercy of 

 rapacious ostlers, or people utterly unfit to 

 be entrusted with the management of horses. 

 Yet he might, from the knowledge he may 

 acquire by the perusal of these pages, turn 

 his horse to much better account, save him- 

 self much expense in the course of the year, 

 get the animal to do his work in a better 

 manner, and with the pleasing reflection 

 that he has also prevented the infliction of 

 needless suffering. 



In a religious point of view, it is also 

 incumbent upon us to treat with kindness all 

 those animals which are given to us for our 



use. The horse, in particular, should be an 

 object of our especial regard. How many 

 of the complaints under which he labours 

 are the consequences of man's brutality ! 

 His diseases are few, even in an artificial 

 state, and those few are brought on by ill- 

 treatment, or, in milder language, misman- 

 agement. Yet there may be quite as much 

 cruelty in the one case as the other, if the 

 latter be not of the two the worst. 



Whose horses have to undergo such un- 

 remitting fatigue as those of commercial 

 travellers'? Yet, where is there besides so 

 large a body of men who are enabled to pay 

 so little regard to them, or to acquire a com- 

 petent knowledge of the best mode of treat- 

 ing them ■? They know that horses have 

 mouths to be fed, for this knowledge is 

 forced upon them by the cost of their keep ; 

 and they know also that the mouth is useful 

 as a ])lace for the bit, without which they 

 could not be ridden or driven, and this, 

 generally speaking, is the full extent of the 

 knowledge possessed by the class of persons 

 alluded to of horses. To understand the 



