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sees a horse that has the necessary weight, ambition and manners to 

 perform well under such circumstances, he will pay a long price lo 

 secure him. Then again, this horse can be used also in the carriage 

 with a fair amount of satisfaction. Of course a first-class saddler or 

 hunter has not carriage action, but for the man who likes both riding 

 and driving this is certainly the best horse. A horse with typical car- 

 riage action does not answer nearly as well for saddle purposes as a 

 saddle horse does for harness. 



XV. Cobs. 



A salable cob is a little chunky fellow with extreme action and 

 beauty, lie cannot be produced with any degree of certainty, lie 

 is sired by the various classes of light horses out of ordinary mares. 

 His j)roduction in most cases can be explained by the action of some of 

 the aforementioned laws of breeding. While a good animal of this 

 class sells for a good l)rice 1 do not think it would be well for any 

 breeder to try to produce him. 



XVI. Roadsters. 



A good and salable gentleman's roadster is not necessarily a race« 

 horse. In that it is seldom that a racehorse makes a satisfactory 

 roadster. A gentleman's roadster should be of fair size, 15 1-2 lo 

 16 hands, of good and graceful conformation, good color, and a stylish 

 walking fellow, free driver, capable of traveling at the rate of twelve 

 miles an hour or faster and keeping that clij) up for several lioui-s. He 

 must have good action, both fore and aft. Must not require boots or 

 scalpers to prevent him injuring himself, and may cither trot or pace. 

 He is, with rare exceptions, sired by the standard-bred, but can be sired 

 out of a road mare by any of the lighter breeds of sires. In order to 

 produce him with any degree of certainty we require a good sized mare 

 with trotting blood and good individuality to mate with the big, clever- 

 looking, trotting-bred stallion, with good action and at least a fair 

 amount of speed. Small animals of this class may be able to go the 

 distance on a good road hitched to a light rig at the required speed but 

 my idea of a gentleman's roadster is an animal that has sufficient size 

 and strength, combined with speed, to enable him to draw two in a 

 buggy over heavy roads. Unfortunately there are too many roadster-bred 

 horses in the country that are so small that even though they may bo 

 tolerably speedy, if not fast enough for racing purposes, have really no 

 market value. Therefore, in breeding roadsters for the market we 

 should be careful to produce animals of fair size as well as speed. Such 

 animals can be produced if we are careful in the selection of the parents. 



