THE CARRIAGE BIT-AN^D-BRIDOON". 127 



NO STYLE OR GRACE IN SHORT-LEGGED HORSES. 



There is no style or easy action in the fat, big-bellied, 

 short-legged, bob-tailed cob for harness, and when we stroll 

 throuoh a first-class harness establishment and see the 

 handsome Enoljsh and home-made outfits for botli ridins: 

 and driving, we regret not knowing where to find horses 

 worthy of their gorgeous perfections. No doubt there 

 are ^ne carriage horses, but they are few and far between. 

 Instead of breeding for them, they come more by chance 

 in breeding other stock than by design, as is evident in the 

 various points of their formation. Thousands drift into 

 the cities that should never leave the farm or the ** dirt " 

 roads of a back country. From the stock we have we 

 could breed to suit any service, and the carriage could be 

 suited as well as the plow. The hunter that carries 225 

 pounds is bred for the purpose, and he brings his price. 



The necessary points in a carriage horse can be bred 

 for and produced as w^ell as for the extra size of the most 

 desirable roasting pieces of mutton or beef, but perhaps it 

 requires the foresight, the patience, science and perse- 

 verance of an Englishman to accomplish this. The 

 English have brought breeding of all domestic animals 

 to a state of perfection. Every shape, point and size that 

 they have developed designedly have their unmistakable 

 uses and values. And as the English for hundreds of 

 years had been groping in the dark, bringing all sorts of 

 domestic animals from various parts of the world as 

 means to certain ends, in which they have most certainly 

 succeeded beyond ihe wildest expectations of their enter- 

 prising progenitors, w^e should not boast of success, con- 

 siderins; that w^e are workino- in the lio-ht and on the- 

 material that they gave us. 



Englishmen of the present day liavc grown out of the 

 ignorance, manners and habits of a barbarous race, clad 

 in skins of wild animals, fighting their way through 



