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which, the judgment of a purchaser will not only be 

 benefited, but meet with considerable support. 



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CARRIAGE HORSES. 



.Horses intended for a carriage or draft of any 

 description, should be from five feet to five feet four 

 inches high; though there are many excellent and 

 truly valuable draft horses of much smaller size. The 

 greatest attention should be paid to their habits, temper, 

 quality, and disposition. A horse that has been once 

 frightened in harness, never asrain is safe for that 

 employment. So retentive are their memories, that 

 they do not forget an alarm of that kind during their 

 whole lives. For the want of experience on this subject, 

 horses that have been frightened in harness have been 

 hitched to carriages, which too often has been the 

 cause of the untimely death of many amiable females 

 and helpless children. Indeed, a pair of good and well 

 matched, gentle carriage horses, is rarely to be met 

 with ; as so many good qualities, together with a 

 similarity of age, colour, size, and majks, is required to 

 make them complete and valuable. Their eyes should 

 be good, carriage lofty, bodies proportionably large, 

 breasts full and wide, their whole bodies heavily 

 muscled; their heads, necks, and ears delicate; their 

 legs large, sinewy, and bony ; their pasterns short, and 

 their hoofs moderately large, and not too flat. They 

 should be free from starting, stumbling, and kicking; 



