THE HEAVY HARNESS BREEDS 



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Influence when Mated. — The finer sort of German horses, 

 mated with mares of trotting or Thoronghbrecl breeding, possess- 

 ing the quality and snap which the sire lacks, have produced 

 with a fair degree of uniformity high class harness horses of the 



Fig. 77.— a German Coach stallion, showing the size, shape, and color typical of this breed. 



brougham type. Their long line of pure breeding has made the 

 German Coach horse more prepotent than his French contem- 

 porary. Mated with drafty mares, the result is not satisfactory. 

 The coach horse is strongly of cold blood extraction, and coupled 

 with a mare of like inheritance the produce is neither one tiling 



