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East " farmer raises a colt or two from good stock, 

 which, being turned out for several years on a rocky 

 hillside, and having also, it may be, a tendency in 

 that direction, acquire the habit of lifting their feet 

 particularly high when they trot. The owner looks 

 upon this action as a defect rather than a merit, but 

 fashionable people in Xew York and Boston think 

 otherwise : it soon becomes known that the dealers 

 who go from farm to farm will pay a good price for 

 horses with excessively high action, and accordingly 

 such horses are bred. 



But is there no family of American coachers ? 

 Good horses having been raised in this country for at 

 least one hundred and fifty years, is it possible^ that 

 in all that time we have not produced a typical car- 

 riage horse of our own ? Alas ! no, although we have 

 ample material for the purpose. One of the most 

 brilliant performers that appeared on the trotting 

 course during the season of 1890 was Pamlico, a five- 

 year-old stallion, owned in North Carolina, but bred 

 in Vermont. Pamlico won many races, obtained a 

 record of 2.16f in a fourth heat, and proved himself 

 to be a very enduring and speedy trotter. But, be- 

 sides being a trotter, Pamlico, except for some want 

 of height, is almost an ideal coach horse. He is of a 

 rich bay color, with black points ; his back is short, 

 his shape round and smooth, with neither the angu- 

 larities nor the high rump that are associated with 

 the trotting model ; his neck inclines to arch ; he has 

 a handsome head, with, fine ears, large eyes, widely 

 separated ; and, race horse though he is, Pamlico pos- 

 sesses the bold, proud action of a coaching stallion. 

 Xow Pamlico, though an unusual, is not an excep- 



