CARRIAGE HORSES AND COBS. 195 
East” farmer raises a colt or two from good stock, 
which, being turned out for several years on a rocky 
hillside, and having also, it may be, a tendency in 
that direction, acquire the habit of lifting their feet 
particularly high when they trot. The owner looks 
upon this action as a defect rather than a merit, but 
fashionable people in New York and Boston think 
otherwise: it soon becomes known that the dealers 
who go from farm to farm will pay a good price for 
horses with excessively high action, and accordingly 
such horses are bred. 
But is there no family of American coachers ? 
Good horses having been raised in this country for at 
least one hundred and fifty years, is it possible that 
in all that time we have not produced a typical car- 
riage horse of ourown? Alas! no, although we have 
ample material for the purpose. One of the most 
brilliant performers that appeared on the trotting 
course during the season of 1890 was Pamlico, a five- 
year-old stallion, owned in North Carolina, but bred 
in Vermont. Pamlico won many races, obtained a 
record of 2.167 in a fourth heat, and proved himself 
to be a very enduring and speedy trotter. But, be- 
sides being a trotter, Pamlico, except for some want 
of height, is almost an ideal coach horse. He is of a 
rich bay color, with black points; his back is short, 
his shape round and smooth, with neither the angu- 
larities nor the high rump that are associated with 
the trotting model; his neck inclines to arch; he has 
a handsome head, with fine ears, large eyes, widely 
separated; and, race horse though he is, Pamlico pos. 
sesses the bold, proud action of a coaching stallion. 
Now Pamlico, though an unusual, is not an excep- 
