CARRIAGE HORSES. 7S 



With respect to the colors of horses, people differ very 

 widely ; a black horse, with white face and legs, a gray, or 

 a mahogany bay, with white marks, when well kept, are 

 all showy colors; but for actual service, experience has 

 proved that dark colors, without any white feet, are far 

 preferable ; for who ever recollects to have seen a black, 

 sorrel, or bay horse, with a bald face and four white legs, 

 distinguish himself on the turf, in four-mile heats ? I am 

 inclined to believe there is no first rate race horse of that 

 description within the United States." 



CARRIAGE HORSES. 



" Horses intended for a carrage pr draft of any descrip- 

 tion 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 again 

 is safe for that employment. So retentive are their memo- 

 ries, that they do not forget an alarm of that kind during 

 their whole lives. For the want of experience on this sub- 

 ject, 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, color, size, and 

 marks are required to make them complete and valuable. 

 Their eyes should be good, carriage lofty, bodies propor- 

 tionably large, breast 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 



