60 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
57. History in America. — The French Coach horse 
was most extensively imported to this country during the 
eighties, many of them coming to the eastern states. 
Those sent west were most largely taken to the states 
of Illinois and Ohio. In the middle west they have been 
liberally patronized, and when the foundation mares were 
of suitable size and type, and a fair degree of action, high- 
class carriage horses have been produced. The scarcity 
of the proper type of mares to breed to such stallions 
militated against the reputation of the breed for crossing 
purposes; and especially has the scarcity of genuine 
coach action been the source of some disappointment. 
58. Types of French Coach horses. — Owing to the 
needs of the army, the French Coach horse in France is 
represented by two types, referred to as the Demi-sang 
trotteur, or those of the trotting type, and the Demi-sang 
carrossier, or those of the coach type. There are now 
two stud-books in France for the registration of these: 
The French Stud-book, A Register of Demi-sang Horses 
Born and Imported in France, established in 1833; and 
the Stud-book Trotteur, compiled and published in 1907. 
Records had been compiled before this, but only in recent 
years has the full importance of these become manifest 
to the patrons of the breed. 
59. Coach type. — The French Coach horse of the coach 
or “ carrossier ”’ type is in every essential a coach or car- 
riage horse according to the market requirements (Fig. 10). 
These horses stand, on an average, sixteen hands high, 
and in weight may vary from ten to fourteen hundred 
pounds. Most of the horses of this type are upstanding, 
carrying their heads and tails high when in motion or at 
rest. They are smooth, symmetrical and invariably of 
fine quality, with very graceful movement, having high 
