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mainly to that end; and into such hands the 

 breeding of horses for speed alone, whether 

 runners or trotters, may largely be left. 



The next class, in the scale of prices, is the 

 large, stylish, high-stepping carriage or coach 

 horse. Such horses may be bred with a good 

 degree of certainty, with the proper stock to 

 breed from, and there is but little expense at- 

 tending the breaking and training. Such as 

 prove rather deficient in size, style, and action 

 may make very serviceable farm horses, but to 

 command the best price for the carriage or 

 coupe there must be rather more of spirit, and 

 they must be rather more "rangy" and possess 

 higher knee action than is desirable for farm, 

 work. Such horses may be produced by coup- 

 ling large, stout mares with a good-sized, highly- 

 bred, stylish, high-stepping trotting stallion, or 

 a stylish, large thoroughbred. The latter is the 

 course of breeding by which the coach-horse 

 breeds of England, France, and Germany were 

 produced; and as these have already been ex- 

 tensively introduced into the United States 

 they will no doubt be used to a very considera- 

 ble extent here by breeders of coach and car- 

 riage horses. I would recommend, however, 

 that good judgment and discriminating intelli- 

 gence be made use of in selecting sires from 

 among these imported horses, for some of them 

 are but sorry mongrels in point of blood, Only 



