HORSE SENSE. 



COACH HORSE TYPES CONSIDERED. 



23 



From time immemorial, the tj'pe designated as the coach horse, has 

 been the ambition of breeders to supply the fastidious people of wealth 

 and fashion with carriage and coach teams, but up to the present time 

 they have had to depend largely on the selection of individual animals 

 (from any source) to meet the wants of fashion rather than the estab- 

 lishing of a typical and uniform breed or family of this high class of 

 horses. 



Cut No. 15. 

 AMERICAN CARRIAGE BROOD MARE. 



SIZE, STYLE, ACTION AND COLOR AIMED AT. 



To get the desired size, together with style and action, has required 

 a crossing of specific types of the heavy and light horses, relying in 

 the beginning on Arabian sires for form, style and spirit, and dams 

 of some of the larger types of horses, and later, with the English thor- 

 oughbred sires and dams of the heavier stock, but the stifif-kneed action 

 of the running horse has so often failed to get the desired action that 

 there have been many disappointments in the results. As to the color 

 of coach horses, probablj' the bay has a more universal standing, but 

 people differ so widely in taste, that what is fashionable this year may be 

 off-color next year. Some want solid colors and others want white 

 markings. | 



