CONTENTS 



Want of Carriage Horses in England ... 



London Dealers Purchase Abroad 



Foreign Horses Coming to England 



Breeding Stock Sold to Foreigners 



How to Breed Carriage Horses ... 



Mares Suitable to Breed from 



Failure in Producing Carriage Horses ... 



Want of System in Breeding Carriage Horses 



Trotting v. Galloping Action 



Shape and Action of Carriage Horses... 



Horses can be Bred for all Purposes ... 



Galloping Power of the Race-Horse 



To Breed Horses according to Requirements 



The Promotion of Horse Breeding 



No Scarcity of Mares in England 



Prejudice against Mares ... 



The Success of Foreigners m Breeding 



Paris Horse Shows 



The Anglo-Norman Breed 



The Continental Policy 



Foreign Demand for Hackney Sires 



The Market for Carriage Horses 



Characteristics of the Hackney ... 



Pedigree of the Hackney... 



Proper Height for the Hackney Stallion 



Saddle-Horses in the Past 



The Term "Hackney Horse" ... 



Ro.-idsters of the Coaching Period 



Disappearance of the Saddle-Horse 



Ancient Writers on the Hackney 



of Ma, 



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ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Barouche Horses, 16.2 to 17 hands 

 Landau Horses, 15.3 to 16 hands 

 Victoria Horses, 15.1 to 16 hands 



Coach or Post Horses 



R.H.A. Gun-Team Horse... 



The Darley Arabian 



The Hackney in 1800, 1850 and 1900 .. 

 Lord Chesterfield's Norfolk Hackney " Hazard 

 "Motor" 



