CARRIAGE HORSES AND COBS. 205 
an hour, equalling the speed of their better bred Eng- 
lish contemporaries, but not, it is true, keeping it up 
so long; their stages being but five miles in length, 
whereas the English stages were ten miles. 
But whatever the size of the carriage horse, and 
whatever the use for which he is intended, — whether 
he is to be a big, prancing coacher, or a fast-stepping 
barouche horse, or a useful, medium-sized animal, or a 
stout one for a brougham, or a showy one for a phae- 
ton, or an all-day nag for a comparatively light car- 
riage and long drives, — whether he is to be a horse. a 
cob, or a pony, —let him have the inward energy and 
the outward grace that only a dash of thoroughbred 
or Arab blood can supply. Half-bred horses are not 
only the most useful, but the most beautiful, the 
world over. 
