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sun and rain. It is said that a black horse looks smaller 

 than he really is and a dappled gray larger. Black 

 horses are desirable for undertakers perhaps, but they 

 are too suggestive of that particular trade to be in 

 demand for private use. 



Piebald and peculiarly marked animals sometimes 

 sell well, but they are difficult to breed; that is, they are 

 sports rather than the product of a well-defined variety 

 or breed; "Calico horses," and sorrels with light - 

 colored manes and tails, find their best market in South 

 America, where they are especially admired by the Span- 

 ish Americans. Most of this class of coachers belong 

 properly in the carriage class, as they are seldom large 

 enough for heavy coaching. As yet, few true coachers 

 are bred in the United States. Many fine carriage- 

 horses and roadsters are produced, and the larger ones 

 serve fairly well for the lighter coaches but they seldom 

 have the size requisite to give the turnout the stately 

 front necessary to prevent the coach from appearing 

 too large and lofty for the team. A large coach with 

 an elevated front seat and a tall driver has the effect 

 of making the horses look smaller than they are. We 

 judge most things by comparison. The expert horse- 

 man not infrequently exhibits his horse hitched to a 

 low- wheeled sulky, phaeton or road- wagon, which has 

 the effect of making the horse appear larger than he 

 really is. Animals of all kinds exposed at public auction 

 are sometimes placed on higher ground than the bidders, 

 for the purpose of making the animals appear large. 

 Even the complete lowering of the carriage-top seems 

 to increase the size of the horse hitched to the vehicle. 



