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great measure. The Cleveland Bay is remarkable for color, a pure bay, 

 dashed only at the fetlocks and in the forehead with white. 



XIII. The French Coach Horse. 



The French Coach horse is as near perfection as a speedy, showy horse, 

 of great courage and endurance, of ample height and contour can be, and 

 of weight sufficient to carry a good weight at a fast pace when called on. 

 Their colors, too, are solid, as to the body, being, as a rule, when well 

 bred, bay, brown or black, relieved often with a white star in the fore- 

 head, with dashes of white on the fetlocks. Their breeding has been most 

 careful and scientific, having been entirely under the control of the Govern- 

 ment of France. This consists, first, of stallions owned by the Government 

 itself; second, stallions belonging to private individuals inspected and 

 approved by the Government, such approved stallions receiving from the 

 Government, as long as they are so kept, from 300 to 3,000 francs per 

 annum, according to their breeding and superior excellence; third, author- 

 ized stallions — animals that by Government inspection are pronounced of 

 good quality and worthy of public patronage; therefore, the fixity of type 

 is fully perfected. The French Coach breed, instead of being the product 

 of a multiplicity of ideas, has been developed under the exclusive guidance 

 of the Director-General of the National Studs of France, and as these offi- 

 cials are educated in the same school from generation to generation, are 

 taught to value the same form, seek for the same qualities, and pursue the 

 same system, we can understand how it has been possible for them to attain 

 such high perfection and great uniformity in the horses of the country. 

 The power exercised by the Inspector-General is extraordinary, controlling 

 as he does the selection of the 2,500 stallions owned exclusively by the 

 Government and the thousands of others annually inspected, which must 

 obtain his approval before receiving their permits and subsidy; and further, 

 all breeders are confined exclusively to the use of animals inspected and 

 licensed by this department. This places horse-breeding entirely under 

 Government control as far as the stallions, which greatly control results, 

 can do. Hence, we do not hesitate to state, as an individual opinion, that, 

 as now constituted, they are the peer of any other coach horse in the world. 

 XIV. The Hackney Horse. 



As a well-bred harness horse, high stepping, active, swift and elegant, 

 the English Hackney now stands in the first class, both East and West. 

 Some men, who ought to know better, imagine that they have Mongrel 

 blood in them. Far from it. An English authority of note, in 1894, says 

 that it is to the Darley Arabian (imported into England in 1706), that all 

 the noted Hackney sires of to-day are to be traced without a flaw. The 

 Darley Arabian begat Flying Childers, which was the sire of Blaze, which 



