10 FIT FOR DRAWING, NOT FOR TROTTING. 



one at which they often fail. Even here, quality is of more value 

 than quantity, though the cart horse should have both. 



The hips should be very wide and the loins muscular, without 

 which no horse can be strong ; but, the back of no harness horse 

 should be reached. 



The best of these horses have large, heavy, though good- 

 tempered heads. The light head of a Thoroughbred should not be 

 sought for in any cart horse, as it is quite incompatible with the 

 mild, placid temper that is one of his most indispensible 

 qualifications. 



14. — Modern cart horses are less upright in the shoulder 

 than the cart horses used to be, and are more frequently called on 

 for a faster pace ; but we have always found that the cart horse 

 with an upright shoulder, and whose fore legs consequently stand 

 somewhat under him, will draw a heavy load with more ease to 

 himself, and stand more of it, than a horse with a shoulder sloping 

 much back. The heaviest shire horse should be able to walk at a 

 good pace, but the brisk walk should be the fastest pace required 

 from him. Where much trotting is demanded, as well as heavy 

 pulling, a lighter draft horse should be selected. 



15. — As a sire, the Shire Horse betrays his varied and 

 uncertain pedigree, as he does not transmit his qualities with the 

 certainty of the Thoroughbred, or even of the Clydesdale. 



If long-continued in his present form, the characteristics of 

 the race will become more fixed, and for a combination of 

 moderate, useful activity, with great power, docility, and consti- 

 tution, the Shire Horse of the present day has never been equalled. 



THE CLYDESDALE HORSE, 



IC— The Clydesdale horse, like the men who have cultivated 

 him, is not without his faults, but his merits have l)een sufficient 

 to take him wherever a Scotchman goes, and that must be a poor 

 country indeed, if such a country there be, where there are no 

 Scotchmen and no Clydesdales. As guiding whips are superseded 

 by reins, and walking drivers are displaced by seated pilots in the 

 streets of London, the Black Lincolns disappear, and even the 

 Shire Horses are giving place to the lighter, more active and 



