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DIFFERENT KINDS OF CARRIAGE HORSES. 



There is as much variety in their breeding- as 

 there is in their size and colour. There is the 

 ordinary half-bred, the three -parts -bred, and the 

 thoroughbred horse doing carriage work regularly 

 every day in the year. There is a wide gap between 

 the half-bred team discharging the rough jobbing 

 work of a posting establishment, or, what may be 

 still worse, the monotonous humdrum of city tram- 

 ways, and the thoroughbred team dashing pleasantly 

 along in a nobleman's carriage. Electricity is rapidly 

 superseding horses for tram work in towns and the 

 sooner it is accomplished the better it will be for 

 the poor horses. Carriage horses vary in height 

 from fourteen to sixteen-and-a-half hands high, and 

 even more, and there is simply no limit to their 

 colour whatever from jet black to pure white, and 

 even piebald and skewbald. 



COLOUR AND MARKINGS. 



To draw a model pair of carriage horses from such 

 diversity of colours, the selection would probably fall 

 on a pair of chesnuts or bays with good action, 

 three-parts-bred, fifteen-and-a-half hands high, white 

 stars in their foreheads, with white stockings reach- 

 ing a few inches above their hind pastern joints, and 

 their manes lying from the centre to the outside. 

 Colour and markings are matters of taste, yet there 

 is a fashionable prejudice existing amongst those 



