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owing to his want of speed he has now been 

 almost discarded. The Lincolnshire dray-horse 

 is now used for the production of carriage- 

 horses by thoroughbred sires, and also some 

 breeders of Clydesdale horses in Scotland 

 are rather fond of crossing them with the 

 Clydesdale, and selling the produce as tho- 

 rouglibred Clydesdales, thus realising a tho- 

 roughbred price for a crossbred animal. 



The Suffolk Caet-horse is chestnut,varying 

 from a sorrel to a moderately dark chestnut 

 colour ; he is rather long in the back, deep- 

 chested, full in the flank, and deep-bellied, 

 having clean and wiry legs and a full crest. 

 He is often seen in the South of England, but 

 the Clydesdale is fast superseding him. Taking 

 into consideration his make and shape, I do not 

 see why the mares should not produce good 

 carriage-horses, if mated with suitable tho- 

 roughbred sires. 



The Clydesdale certainly is at present the 

 king of the cart-horses in Great Britain ; he is 

 generally of a bay, brown, or black colour, the 



