124 CARRIAGE HORSES. 



strength with great activity, are strong and hardy, and are 

 consequently excellent for city work or for all-round use. 

 A well matched pair, sound and young, are worth at the 

 present time from five hundred to fifteen hundred dollars 

 according to the shape, action, color and the degree to 

 which they are mated. Second, the larger class of carriage 

 horse, resembling the hunter in conformation, and many of 

 the best of these horses are in fact hunter bred and conse- 

 quently have some thoroughbred blood in their veins. The 

 best of the produce are retained for the chase, and the others 

 are developed into carriage and saddle horses. In build 

 this class of horse is somewhat like the lanky coach horse 

 of the "good old days." They should be fiat limbed, have 

 plenty of bone and show breeding. Their value is about 

 the same as that of the preceding type, but instances are 

 not wanting of an individual horse bringing over four thou- 

 sand dollars. 



In reference to the use of the hunter bred horse for car- 

 riage work, the Earl of Onslow, in " Driving," Badminton 

 Library, p. 54, says : 



" Many of the points and qualifications of a hunter are equally desir- 

 able in tlie carriage horse ; but inasmuch as the latter is not called upon to 

 take any weight upon his back, it obviously is not necessary that his bones 

 should be as big and as strong as an animal which is expected to carry 

 fourteen or fifteen stone across country. Many a horse with straight shoul- 

 ders and weak points which would lead to its rejection as a hunter might prove 

 a serviceable, and even pass as a good looking, harness horse. The value 

 of a carriage horse, therefore, is considerably less than that of a hunter." 



By crossing the trotting bred horse with the hackney, 

 French coach or thoroughbred, a variety of types has been 

 produced that has supplied the demands more successfully 



