The sun., 1890-08-03
COACH AND SADDLE HORSES.
uoRE MOMEr IN RAISING THEM THAN
RICkRS OR TROTTERS.


n. nvsiness = Great One Abroad aAd fest
HsrInnInG Here-0ons Btrains n0O Years
oIs-SonethInG for Farners, Too.
There 10 more money In raising coach and
.sddle horses than In breeding trottinR stock
Ar raoinR horses. breeding trotters and race
horaea II almost as much OF lottery Rs buy
,ng them. They may turn out to be very good,
IN which case they are Rroat prizes. II they
40 not turn out to be very good. they do not pay
-, tha cost Of raising them and the invest
roent OF the money put In. With saddle and
coach horses thoro 10 always . regular and
stsady market It requires nothing like so
much capital for each horse It 10 easier to raise
than. and they are almost always sure OF
Sala It Is only recently. however. that the
bneedinR Of coach and saddle horses was
sntered into In this country. In Germany,
France. England and all the European coun-
tries coach and saddle horses have been bred
"A regularly and steadily as race horses. In
the United states . horse that was bred for o
trotter would occasionally turn into q good
saddle horse. while coach pairs wero picked
out from the mass Of horses. The result was
that the rice Of o good coach pair went away
up, and tho price Of good saddle horses has
kept up with 1t. A good well-matched coach
palr will sell oti-hand In New York for $1,000,
while there are some pairs that are worth over
$1,000. Ordinary horses hitehed up In double
harness are not meant by this, but pair Of
thoroughbred coach horses with blood. breed
ing, carriage. and action. They are scarcer at
the price than IN ordinary pair is at S4oo.
Canada has heen furnishing for several years
the only all.round saddle horses for New York.
Kentucky has been sending a great many
horses for saddle purposes. hut though they
arc we'll broken and have great many Raits,
they cannot be used for hunting with safety.
and they are not weight carriers. A good
saddle horse must be weight carrier. must
bs hardy FREQ from sickness or faults. with en-
duranee and the ability to keep up good
speed. The fancy Kentucky horses do not full
dl these requirements They get sick too
readily; as o general thing niRe-tenths OF them
are sick the frat six months they are In New
York city. They have spirit. but they cannot
trot as many miles the second hour as the lrst
hour under q good weight They do not mako
good hunters, and have not approached In
jumping to Canadian hunters OF English stock.
thoroughbred coach stock Is very different
from thoroughbred trottipR stock. The Ken
tucky horses come from thoroughbred trottinR
atock and thoroughbred racing stock much
more than from thoroughbred coach stock.
In the common mind the idea Of thoroughbred
has come to be applied only to race horses and
trotters, as they are the only kind Of thorough
breds known to New York city. Tho ordinary
saddle horse. as we'll as the ordinary coach
horse. is a half bred horse made by crossing a
taking the chances on the result There Is no
certainty in breeding when either the horse or
There are full bred draught horses that have
never travelled more pre- than nye niles an hour hour
horses that have run In their ves Breed
thing A horse may Be bred for, other reasons
than for speed. DrauRht horses have boon bred
90 that full. bred drSuGht horse can pull stead
lily and regularly twice the load of an ordinary
iui-bred saddle horse and the ordinary saddle
horse is apparent at glance The EuraPsen
Countries make more % hne & distinctions than han
United States have not been settled SO long as
the pedigrees Of some Of the coach and drauRht
ample. have pediRrees going back over three
hundred years. and their owners clalm that
Sesrs sesi o' TSis il where many of tie recent I'M
America Is the home OF the trottinR horse.
reasons than for speed No man would think
Of riding q Thoroughbred race horse around
SF s Ss use to
horses has always been to transport men and
op cae
draught. and saddle horses. They tried to meet
the demand BY starting American strains.
racing and trottlnz stock. This was not sue
eessful. A breed OF horses for particular
or or on Tho
bought and used the horses came to find out
ESs the losa 70 Tood
pair than q Door one. On the contrary: sickly
horse requires more and moro costly feed and
we'll adapted for his work. Then draught horse
bred to do his work can r pull . greater load
tiRation Of the breeding stock Of Europe, and
resulted in the Importation Of Peroheron
as To wShG
not Que Sst Of breeders , claim Eau that they 9s
horse, but a sturdy. smaller-sized animal The
france and Sni best sdsp1sd ada % for the rsisins 81
stock The first buyers from the United states
s to oSSr SS aS sfoff there Got tSs
Of their to the to
name ei Psrohero1S;, The early importstions
were Percheron stations. which, crossed with
SiAs bSssr ss Fhs freaoh ds
horses were too valuable to be used for
II sw yeaF Sous the9 may Be
found pulling drays on the street
In New York II is not SO much the arst cost
that Q good horse. can do. A draught horse
that can do the work OF two ordinary horses is
does d not roquiro any more stable room than
horse or any Gb feed or Ga5s
heavily and the time OF the driver saved. The
cost Of trucking comes more In the time that
than In the cost OF the horses, and horse that
can pull twice the load saves half tho number
of trips This means that he caves the time
Of one truckman. and that o place which re-
qpires two heavy trucks to do its work can get
along with one.
From France tho American buyers made ex-
cursions over Europe and Great Britain to get
horses that would suit them. They found that