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MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



$10,000, by E. T. Bedford ; $20,000 for the foui -xn-hand 

 Flashlight, Electric Light, Lord Burleigh and Lord 

 Brooke; $10,000 by W. H. Moor for the bantarr tallion 

 Berkley Bantam; and $20,000 by Mrs. E. C. Brjwn for 

 the bantam four-in-hand Master, Masterpiece, Masterkey 

 and Masterman. 



Description of the Hackney coach horse. — There is 

 much variation in type, although that most sought repre- 

 sents a powerfully built horse with round ribs, muscular 

 loin, plump quarters and short legs. Perhaps ' i Hack- 

 ney is more blocky in form than any of the other coach 



FIG. 82.— HACKNEY BROOD MARES 



breeds, giving him an extremely smooth appearance with 

 gracefully curved outlines. 



The head is of medium size, rather full, but with clean- 

 cut features, and well carried ; the eyes are large and 

 clear and the ears medium size and specially alert. The 

 neck is often rather full and of medium length. The 

 shoulders are long, sloping and well muscled, favoring 

 lifting power, which gives high knee action. The body 

 is deep, the ribs round, and the back short and well 

 muscled. The quarters are full and deep, with thighs well 

 set and strongly muscled, thus favoring high hock action. 



There is much variation in height. In 1885 the Hack- 

 ney Stud Book Society of England, at the request of the 



