Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-04-01

l-HACKNEY. Il-TROTTER. rr-THOR-
- OUGHBRED.
and the thoroughbred are both built, to
use a yachting term, on speed lines, but
the imported carriage animal has no
suggestion of speed in his bearing. His
action is grand, but slow.
The illustration shows how three types
of horses carry their heads.
In choosing a harness horse pick out
the type best adapted for the use you in
tend give him. For riding on the
ordinary sandy roads of the country in a
buggy. road wagon or rockaway the
best horse is the American type, either a
trotter or a halfbred. For fast road
work for pleasure the trotter, of
course, has the call. For city and park
driving, to carriage or snowy light trap,
the high steppers are the best.
What is termed by dealers the Ameri-
can horse means in animal with straight
back, rather narrow body, a long step in
trotting and a straight neck. 1t is the
ordinary harness horse OF the United
States and is unsurpassed for many pur-
poses. This horse is usually we'll bred,
straining back to established trotting
families or to the thoroughbred. The
shape of the head and neck usually
shows the infusion of thoroughbred
blood. The thoroughbred was the
foundation of almost all of the old trot-
ting lines. Rysdyk's Hambletonian was
ciro1 hwy (l1A A hIol1nh hy M,-,Ioo
and the dam was by imported Bell
founder, and the Messenger, Diomed,
Black Hawk and Morgan lines are strong
in thoroughbred blood.
The descendants of the old trotting
families, crossed with the thoroughbred
or with the half thoroughbred standard
sires, produced the fast trotters OF the
day and the average roadster is bred on
the same lines. Sunol and Axtell's pedi-
grees are rich in blood lines and the
same is true of almost all the record
makers. Four out of almost every five
roadsters seen in Central park are half
or three-quarters thoroughbred.
The best type of the American harness
horse is raised in Kentucky; but Vir-
ginia, Ohio, Indiana and New York also
produce excellent specimens.
For tandem. dog cart, phaeton, T cart
and light carriages the Canadian horses
and hackneys are the best types. They
range in height from Is hands to 15%,
possess high action, symmetrical form,
fine muscular development, sinewy
limbs, fine heads, glossy coats and proud
bearing. The Canadian horse is a de-
scendant of the Norman horse imported
into Canada by the early settlers and
bred for many generations entirely un
mixed, crossed with thoroughbred stock.
The hackney is the native harness horse
of England, a breed that was distinct
before the Arabian horses were brought
to the country, and which has been pre-
served in it's purity by the farmers Of
Yorkshire.
The hackney horse Fashion, owned
by w. Burdett-C outts, has twice won
the first prize as a light harness horse ut
the lslington horse show. Fashion is
considered the best harness horse in
England. Mr.. Coutts drives the horse
before a Stanhope gig or a buggy. using
always the bridoon and London bit.
Such a horse can be guided by the
little finger and will go on for hours
ct a fourteen mile gait at the
same snowy pace. There will be no
pulling or dwelling on the bit and the
leg action will be as high and the foot as
proud on the last mile as the first. This
is the type of horse that W. Seward
Webb, H.K. Bloodgood, A. J. Cassatt,
MI. Fairfax and a host of western breed
ers are nov producing. It is the favorite
horse of the day for snowy harness uses.
For carriage horses the Cleveland
bays, Yorkshires or French coach stock
are the best. Stations and mares of the
best strains of each breed have been inn
ported into this country by many breed
sers, and the best features of the type
nave been preserved by judicious crosses
with select stock. This horse ranges
from 16 to 1917 hands, and is a model Of
strength and beauty. But he is a horse
for coaohmen, not for men who drive
for pleasure. His sphere is to pull a car
rage about the city with grand style
and action; he is too heavy for a pleas
ure horse. e
For four-in-hand work a half thor
oughbred is best. This horse is game
end full Of ambition. clean limbed and
speedy.
For the children the Shetland pony Of
tWelve o. thirteen hands u the best
horse 10 buy.-Continent
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