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horses or Clydesdales, but compactly built, 

 round-bodied, long-backed, short-legged horses, 

 rather light-boned for their weight, and with the 

 general reputation of being rather defective in 

 the feet, but in this respect greatly improved of 

 late years. This is perhaps the best-established 

 of all the heavy breeds of Great Britain, but 

 they are not so universally popular even there 

 as the Clydesdale and Shire horses. It is possi- 

 ble that the fact that other countries, especially 

 our own, have not appeared to demand horses 

 of this type has had something to do with their 

 lack of popularity in their own country. Very 

 few of them have been brought to the United 

 States, and such as have been imported appear 

 to have attracted but little attention. A stud 

 book has been instituted for this breed, and 

 several volumes have been published within 

 the past ten years. 



OTHER BREEDS. 



There are several other breeds of horses that 

 should be noticed in detail if it had been my 

 purpose to include in this chapter a complete 

 description of all the known breeds in the 

 world. Among them I may mention chiefly: 



The Belgian Draft breed, very heavy bodied, 

 thick-set, short-quartered, short-legged, com- 

 pact draft horses of various colors, with a good 

 deal of spirit but rather sluggish in action. 



