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weight are 15 to 15-3 hands and from 1,000 to 1,150 pounds, the most 

 desirable height being 15-1 to 15-2 hands, and the weight from 1,000 

 to 1,100 pounds. 



The cab horse is a comparatively cheap horse, and the require- 

 ments are not so rigid as for coach, cob, or park horses. They are 

 used on cabs, coupes, hansoms, and other vehicles for public service 

 in cities. They are much the same type as the coach horse, in fact 

 many of them are the discarded and lower grades of the coach class. 

 Cab horses stand from 15-2 to 16-1 hands high, and weigh from 1,050 

 to 1,200 pounds. The demand comes from livery and transfer com- 

 panies. 



Fig. 189.— Runabout horse. 



Road Horses 



This class includes Runabout Horses and Roadsters. Runabout 

 horses occupy an intermediate place between typical roadsters and 

 carriage horses, but on account of their action, conformation, and the 

 use to which they are put, they may be more properly classed as road 

 horses. 



The runabout horse is a rather short-legged horse, standing from 

 14-3 to 15-2 hands high, and weighing from 900 to 1,050 pounds. His 

 head should be neat, ear fine, eye large and mild, neck of good length 

 and trim at the throttle. The neck should be of medium weight, not 

 quite so heavy as that of the coach horse, and not so light and thin 

 as that of the roadster. The shoulder should be obliquely set, the 

 withers high and thin, the back short, well muscled, and closely coupled 



