218 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
horses, he sports curls of hair on his fetlocks’; ‘he 
is of good substance, deep-bodied, and set off by those 
powerful yet sloping shoulders,’ etc.; ‘he has also a 
deep body, with great muscular development in his 
rump, quarters, thighs, and gaskins,’ — although they 
might equally apply to certain cart horses, were one 
and all written of race horses.... An excellent 
judge, again, once wrote that horses ‘with strong 
backs and loins, wide hips, and great muscular quar- 
ters, with sound and well shaped hocks, generally 
win,’ — not prizes at agricultural shows, as cart stal- 
lions, but races at Ascot.” 
Another English breed of cart horses, or, in this 
case, more properly farm horses, was the Suffolk 
Punch, which once became almost extinct, but has 
lately been revived in a somewhat different form. 
These were sorrel horses, smaller and more active 
than the shire horse, and noted for their docility. 
They stood low in front, and were disfigured by very 
upright shoulders; but they were round and stout, 
and had good heads. Readers of “Sandford and Mer- 
ton” will recall the delight of Harry when his father, 
Farmer Sandford, received the present of a span 
of Suffolk Punches from Mr. Merton, father of the 
wicked but repentant Tommy. Harry rushes into 
the house to announce the arrival of two strange and 
beautiful horses, whereupon, says the tale, the elder 
Sandford, who in all other respects is represented as 
a sedate and even phlegmatic person, “started up, 
overset the liquor and the table, and, making a hasty 
apology to Mr. Merton, ran out to see these wonderful 
animals. Presently he returned in equal admiration 
with his son. ‘Master Merton,’ said he, ‘I did not 
