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AMERICAN BRED LIGHT ROAD HORSES. 



The light road horses of America excel every other country, and are 

 acknowledged to be the best in the world for the purpose. While the 

 coach and heavy carriage horses are expected to have high action, that 

 of the typical every day road horse must be of the low gaited order and 

 should not be too heavy. Weight beyond the necessities of the load 

 to be carried, is just so much dead weight to be carried by the horses 

 themselves, to say nothing of the extra amount of feed of support for 

 the extra live weight to be sustained. 



Cut No. ig. 

 AMERICAN COACH OR CARRIAGE HORSES. 



The illustration here shown, cut No. 19, is that of a team of half 

 brothers, bred in about the manner indicated, and were owned by a 

 friend of the author, and are very hard to surpass in many particulars. 



AMERICAN BRED HEAVY CARRIAGE HORSES. 



Wherever the trotting bred horses of this country have attained the 

 size and possess the style and finish required, they come nearer meet- 

 ing the wants of the park and city riders and drivers than anything that 

 has yet been imported from other countries. They possess the intelli- 

 gence, spirit, endurance and speed, to satisfy the most critical buyers. 



From the fact that our attention has been attracted to that of speed 

 rather than style and size, is the principal reason why we have so few 



