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CHAPTER XXI. 

 CARRIAGE HORSES. 



Carriage horses are generally very much in de- 

 mand, and as a rule bring fairly remunerative prices 

 from the fact that *a far greater percentage of them 

 are employed than any other class of higher bred 

 horses in this country ; and of all the different classes, 

 from the racehorse to the heavy horse, and from the 

 heavy horse to the Shetland pony, perhaps there is 

 no class more generally useful, or one on which the 

 public more largely depends notwithstanding the 

 great development in motor locomotion. 



It must be admitted that motoring is rapidly 

 increasing, but no motor-car, however expensively 

 got up, is comparable to the dashing appearance of 

 a carriage drawn by a pair of handsome well-matched 

 horses. Since it became law to have motor-cars 

 registered and numbered it is gratifying to know that 

 correspondingly few accidents have been recorded, 

 and that a more sympathetic spirit has been fostered 

 between the drivers of horses and the drivers of 

 motors ; each class is becoming more courteous to 

 the other, the results of which are very appreciable. 



