128 A PAIR THE BROUGHAM HORSE. 



A PAIR. 



In buying a pair of horses there are several important 

 considerations to be thought of after the matter of sound- 

 ness, etc., have been looked into. The first requisite is that 

 they should correspond to a nicety in size and build. It 

 very often happens that a horse measuring the same at the 

 withers as his mate will be several inches higher or lower 

 at the quarters; therefore see that the general outline from 

 the height of the head to that of the quarters of one horse 

 corresponds to a nicety with that of the other. It is one of 

 the rarest and yet most desirable attributes of the pair that 

 they should be of equal muscular and nervous development. 

 Any great dissimilarity is likely to result in one horse being 

 a freer and faster traveller, and he will either tire his slower 

 companion or will exhaust himself drawing more than his 

 share of the weight. A pair working away from the pole 

 or pressing in often do so as a result of badly coupled reins, 

 or the fault may be rectified by changing their positions, 

 placing the off horse on the nigh side and the nigh horse 

 on the off. If the color of the pair is the same there should 

 be no great difference in its shade, z. e., if one horse is a 

 dark chestnut the other should not be a light chestnut. 



Roans and bright chestnuts are the hardest of any to 

 match. The darker shades of any color are said, with much 

 truth, to indicate greater vitality. 



THE BROUGHAM HORSE. 



The qualifications desirable in a brougham horse are 

 set forth by S. Sidney in his work entitled " The Book of 

 the Horse," p. 526, as follows : 



" Every sort of a horse may be seen in broughams ; heavy brutes just 



