BAROUCHE, MAIL PHAETON, HANSOM HORSES. 131 



all-around action ; excessive pace will not be required. (To be shown to 

 an appropriate four-wheeled vehicle.)" 



THE BAROUCHE HORSE. 



The type of horse for a barouche is described by S. 

 Sidney, p. 247 as follows : 



" Barouche horses are expected to show more blood and quality, to be 

 better travellers than would be selected for a suburban visit rather than grand 

 elephantine stepping coach horses; indeed, the best barouche horses are 

 very like the best hunters." 



THE MAIL PHAETON HORSE. 



The same writer, referring to horses for mail phaetons, 

 says : 



" The very finest horses of the most brilliant action, ' stepping and 

 going,' look their best in a mail phaeton ; but if your taste and means in- 

 cline you rather for utility than for ornament, for long distances rather than 

 the solemn yet sociable parades of the Park or the Champs Elysees, a pair 

 of low-priced screws, as your richer friends will term them, if with ' charac- 

 ter ' and breeding, in first-class condition and workmanlike harness, will do 

 very well." /. 534, 535. 



"The mail phaeton of the pre-railway generation required a pair of 

 powerful horses, nearly if not quite 16 hands high. The modern phaetons, 

 that have taken the place of that ponderous carriage so useful and pleas- 

 ant in its way, intended either for country use or park parades, are so 

 much lighter that full-sized horses are quite out of place in them. A phae- 

 ton of suitable size may be perfectly well horsed in every respect by horses 

 of from 14 hands 3 inches to 15 hands i inch. When a pair of horses are 

 used for several purposes, to draw a full-sized brougham or landau, as well 

 as a mail phaeton, 15 hands 2 inches may be found a more useful size. Be- 

 yond that height, unless exceedingly well bred, it is difficult to find horses 

 which are pleasant for a gentleman to drive." p. 24.1. 



THE HANSOM HORSE. 



Again quoting from S. Sidney, he says regarding the de- 

 sirable qualifications for a hansom horse : 



