The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-01-06

1t is desirable that all horses should be OF
good color-dark bay, chestnut or brown,
with as few white marks as possible
these colors beirg best, and Indicating more
constitution than the lighter colors. Small.
lean heads, full eyes, long tapering necks,
sharp. deep shoulders. sloping well back, (fo,
heavy draft some prefer the upright shoulders)
large in grth, broad loins, sinewy fiat legs,
short from knee and heck to the foot, round,
(barrel,) dark; good sized feet are elements
Of beauty and usefulness to which none can
object.
For the Road-A horse should be about
fifteen hands high, IA hand being four inches J
measured from the top Of the shoulders or
withes to the ground, when the horse stands
naturally; bis weight should te about one
thousand pounds, for such weight in an AMI
NAL fifteen bands high, in moderate flesh, in
dicstes compactness and power, somewhere.
Experience has proved that horses Of this size
carry their weight better on long journeys,
pound their feet less on pavemepts and hard
roads, and are apt to be more feet than those
Of larger class; for, while greater length and
height will give an increased stride, either run
ming or trotting, the power to gather rapidly,
and especially for long distances, requires much
greater muscular exeition in large than in
small horses, from the greater weight 10 be
propelled. Our fastest racers aud trotters have
generally been from this class-Eclipse and
Fashion, Ethan Allen and Flora Temple, for
example,; such, then, are the horses loi the
road, saddle or turf
The coach Of family horse should be Of a
oi IL
weigh from 1000 to l,200 pounds. Such
animals, when combining style and beauty,
command good. remunerating prices. and il is
very questionable il they are not far more
profitable to the breeder than fleetsr animals
which require much time for training to &C
quire the speed necf ssary to command high
prices. The coach horse requires ly gentle
and perfect brcaking-such as the farmer can
give while performing his farm work, 10 com
nand from $500 to $1,000 the pair. To
bring like sum, the road horse must show
great speed-such as not one out Of Fifty at
tain even after years of traiRing-and il time
is money, that consumed 10 training the trot,er
must be added to bis cost. To insure style,
ease OF action, intelligence and beauty, the
coach horse should have good (straip) Of the
thorough bred, animals Nth pedigrees truc
ing back to tile English turf on part of sire
and dam, although term constantly rnis-ap
pied when speaking Of Morgans, Black Hawk,
&c., and yet retaining enough of cold blood
to give bin the heavy name, tail, etc., never
possessed bv thorough 5reds. Our remarks
about color and figure are all important in the
coach torse.
The draft horse should be from Is to II
hands, and weigh from 1900 to 1900 lbs,
with short legs, broad, short back, loins and
chest, round, solid body, and capable of throw
ing great weight into the collar; Of quiet, easy
disposition, rather resembling the patient OK
than the restless, nervous thorough BRED
These three breeds are distinct, and as well
might we expect the greyhound, the St. Ber-
nard and the terrier, each to show the peculi.
ariies Of the others separate natures, as to ex-
pect The racer TO draw heavy bad Of stone,
or the clumsy draft horse to show 2:4O to a
sulky, and yet such has been the unreasona
bic expectations Of many American farmers
and breeders.