THE HEAVY HARNESS BREEDS 



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There are really three types of demi sang: The cavalry horse, 

 the trotter, and the so-called coacher. The latter have been most 

 extensively imj^orted to this country, although there have been 

 some record trotters among- them. 



The correct type of French Coach horse as we know him in 

 this country (Fig. 75) is a gooil-sized, rather uji-standing indi- 

 vidual, close and full made, but quite bloodlike in head and 

 neck, Avithers, feet and legs. The big, drafty coacher is not 



Fig. 76. — A French Coacli sire whioh, mated to trotting bred marcs, has produced high 

 class harness horses with remarkable regularity. 



ty])ical of this breed. As a class, they do not flex tlieir hocks 

 so sliarply as do the Hackneys, and are not always faultless in 

 knee action. 



Color. — Bays, browns and chestnuts, with occasional blacks 

 and roans, are the us'lial colors, with one or two but rarely more 

 white points. 



The French Coach as a Breeder. — Some almost perfect in- 

 dividuals are found in this breed, yet they have never proven a 

 great success in the stud in this country. There are two possible 

 reasons for this: Having had a cross-bred origin not so many 



