132 RUN-ABOUT, CABRIOLET, COACH HORSES. 



"To ride safely in a high two-wheeled carriage you require a horse 

 with good trotting action and sound feet. A game but groggy horse can 

 safely pull a four-wheeler. 



"A private hansom requires a better horse than a brougham, if not so 

 fashionable, because, in spite of the very best balancing, there must be some 

 weight in going down hills ; and he should also be fast, equal to at least 

 twelve miles an hour when required, fourteen are better. Pace and ease of 

 motion are the features of this vehicle, which is a very useful addition to a 

 well furnished coach house at a mansion where no severe rise intervenes on 

 the road to a railway station to and from which the head of the establish- 

 ment has frequent occasion to travel." /. 543. 



THE RUN-ABOUT. 



The horse for this type of vehicle should be between 15 

 and 15 hands 2^ inches. The plate of " The Whirl of the 

 Town " indicates the conformation to be desired. Neither 

 speed nor action should be very pronounced, but they should 

 be combined to a degree that renders the horse a handy one 

 for the purposes for which a carriage of this type is intended. 



THE CABRIOLET HORSE. 



Although the cabriolet is seldom used at the present 

 time, it may be of interest to give what was considered a 

 proper type of horse for this vehicle : 



"Very few gentlemen now drive a cabriolet, and of those who do fewer 

 still have a really perfect ' cab ' horse, an animal which was once eagerly 

 sought for. In shape he was supposed to be nearly faultless, to stand not 

 less than 16 hands high, and to have action which could hardly be too 

 extravagant. It was a purely ornamental possession, usefulness being left 

 out of the question. A man who desired such a luxury did not care much 

 what price he paid. It is the most expensive of single-harness horses." 

 Earl of Onslow, "Driving" Badminton Library, p. 55. 



THE COACH HORSE. 

 "So much difference of opinion is there as to what is the best and 



