THE HEAVY HARNESS BREEDS 



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Tliere are really three types of deini sang: The cavalry horse, 

 the trotter, and the so-called coach er. The latter have been most 

 extensively imported to this country, although there have been 

 some record trotters among them. 



The correct type of French Coach horse as we know him in 

 this country (Fig. 75) is a good-sized, rather ui>stan(ling indi- 

 vidual, close and full made, but quite bloodlike in head and 

 neck, withers, feet and legs. The big, drafty coacher is not 



Fig. 76. — A French Coach sire which, mated to trotting bred mares, has produced high- 

 class harness horses with remarltable regularity. 



typical of this breed. As a class, they do not flex their hocks 

 so sharply as do the Hackneys, and are not always faultless in 

 knee action. 



Color. — Bays, browns and chestnuts, with occasional blacks 

 and roans, are the usual colors, with one or two but rarely more 

 white points. 



The French Coach as a Breeder. — Some almost perfect in- 

 dividuals are found in this breed, yet they have never proven a 

 great success in the stud in this country. There are two possible 

 reasons for this: Having had a cross-bred origin not so many 



