34 UNASKED ADVICE. 



AYlien too small for the field_, lie is a hack. With shape 

 that makes him undesirable as a saddle-horse^ charger, 

 hunter^ or hack^ and good action^ he may be a phaeton 

 horse. And failing all these careers of usefulness, there 

 are open to him others tolerably numerous^ and at length 

 when he has nothing particular to recommend him, there 

 is the never-failing profession of the cab rank. We have 

 thus already at least five diflPerent trades for horses who 

 may be own brothers to each other, and they will be so 

 far different in appearance that no tyro would mistake 

 the hack for the hunter or race-horse : yet they could 

 hardly be called varieties of the English horse. Varie- 

 ties they would be, but of the English thorough-bred 

 only. 



Leaving the stud book, endless different types are 

 noticeable, though here too it is less the breed of the 

 horse than his form and appearance that qualify him for 

 his particular walk in life. A direct half-bred may be a 

 weight-carrying hunter or a slave in a van. The object 

 of the following remarks and sketches therefore is to show 

 as prominently as possible the differences of form, and, 

 to a certain degree, of family. These, while rendering 

 a horse invaluable for one purpose, may disqualify him 

 utterly for another ; and if these papers succeed in dis- 

 suading even one individual from putting his horse in 

 '^the wrong place," the writer will have his reward. 

 How often have we all seen a man the possessor, say, of 

 an animal the real thing for a brougham, disappointed, 

 nay disgusted, because a too discriminating public has 

 declined to buy him for a charger, or vice versa — perhaps 

 with no better reason than because the animals dam was 

 a charger or trooper. Breeding for a particular purpose is 

 a lottery, and especially the breeding of half-bred horses. 



