HISTORY 



OF THE CANADIAN HORSE. 



The Canadian is generally low- sized, rarely exceeding fifteen 

 hands, and oftener falling short of it. 



The above cut is a portrait, drawn from a photograph in the 

 possession of Mr. Wm. T. Porter, by Mr. Fitzgibbons, of the 

 celebrated Canadian trotting stallion St. Lawrence, taken at 

 the St. Louis Agricultural Fair, in the fall of 1856. It is 

 thought to be a particularly good likeness, and the horse him- 

 self is a fine type of this peculiar breed. 



His characteristics are a broad, open forehead ; ears some- 

 what wide apart, and not unfrequently a basin face ; the latter, 

 perhaps, a trace of the far remote Spanish blood, said to exist in 

 liis veins; the origin of the improved Norman or Fercheron 

 stock being, it is usually beUeved, a cross of the Spaniard, Barb 

 b}' descent, with the old Korman war-horse. 



His crest is lofty, and his demeanor proud and courageous, 

 [lis breast is full and broad ; his shoulder strong, though some 



