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persisted and more or less desultory importing 

 operations were continued. At that time 

 horse-breeding was not in high favor and state 

 fair exhibits of horses attracted little attention. 

 Still despite this most discouraging reception 

 those who were interested in the German 

 Coacher kept on showing him and as a natural 

 consequence the breed became familiar to most 

 fairgoers. Such stallions as did find buyers be- 

 came popular in the districts in which they 

 were placed and when the tide finally turned 

 the demand for them opened up in fine shape. 

 They got a lot of good mares to their cover at 

 that time and they begot a lot of colts and fillies 

 that were well suited to the export trade, then 

 flourishing, with the result that their get ac- 

 quired popularity for the reason that a market 

 could readily be found for it. 



At that the German Coacher has suffered 

 from a too general ignorance on the part of 

 farmers of the principles involved in breeding 

 carriage horses. Full of substance and some- 

 what inclined to grossness the German Coacher 

 has for the most part been mated with mares 

 that were too large and possessed too little 

 quality. That the quality kind of German 

 Coacher will beget the right kind of quality and 

 action when properly mated admits of no doubt. 

 We have seen his grades at shows and else- 

 where that filled the bill very close to the edge 

 and the beautiful dark brown color which so 



