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TYPES AND BREEDS 



cobby build or not. The typical cob does not stand over 15.1, 

 is low set, extremely close and full made, has unusual bone and 

 muscular development, and a short but trappy way of going 

 (Fig. 46). He may be briefly described as a big little horse, 

 of a rugged though not coarse appearance. Cobs are used to 

 both ride and drive and are remarkable weight carriers. 



Light Harness Horse Division. — ^Light harness horses are 

 as distinctly American in their origin as the heavy harness are 

 English, and it is interesting to note the reciprocal favor which 

 each is receiving in the other country. 



Fig. 46. — A cob to runabout, a big, little horse of extremely compact and rotund form. 



Since maximum speed requires minimum draft, American 

 road wagons are built of such material and in such fashion as 

 to impose upon the horse the least weight that is consistent with 

 the safe and comfortable conveyance of one or two people. They 

 are, therefore, in striking contrast to the English carriages and 

 require harness correspondingly light. 



The light harness horse follows the speed type but differs 

 from the running race horse in being somewhat lower in the fore- 

 hand, longer and more sloping in the croup, longer from the 

 hip- joint to the hock, with the hocks set further back and the 



