. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. 78 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE There is not a great variation in color, bay, in varying shades, and brown, being most common. Of 147 stallions and mares owned by two of the leading dealers in the United States there were 90 bays or brown bays, 29 browns, 17 blacks, and 11 chestnuts. The French Coach is characterized by very good length of body, with a long, somewhat arching neck and a long, wide, level croup. The trot of this breed is long and powerful, rather than high and trappy like the Hackney. The French have sought strong bone and excellent fe
. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. 78 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE There is not a great variation in color, bay, in varying shades, and brown, being most common. Of 147 stallions and mares owned by two of the leading dealers in the United States there were 90 bays or brown bays, 29 browns, 17 blacks, and 11 chestnuts. The French Coach is characterized by very good length of body, with a long, somewhat arching neck and a long, wide, level croup. The trot of this breed is long and powerful, rather than high and trappy like the Hackney. The French have sought strong bone and excellent feet and great speed for a heavy type of trotter. The French race track, which is either two and one half or two miles long, is over a course of turf. The sod track causes a high knee action and long stride as well as a strong, well-flexed hock movement. Speed records of French Coachers. As might natu- rally be supposed, the use of stallions from high-class speed ancestry on French mares produced fast trot- ters. The horses of France, however, have never made as fast time as those of America. In 1873 Niger trotted 2^ miles in , while up to 1877 the fastest record was by Pactole, who made 2^miles in In 1891 there were 1399 contestants in races, 3120! which trotted races from 2 to 3f miles at less than 3 minutes per mile, 137 under , 112 under , and 62 under The size and strength of this horse enable him to go con- siderable distances at comparatively great speed. In 1875, at Toulouse, Zethus, under saddle, trotted I2j^ miles in 37 minutes 21 seconds, and in another trial at Caen trotted the same dis- tance in 37 minutes 19 seconds. In 1877 the mare Zacinthe trotted i8| miles on an ordinary road in 59 minutes, defeating Zethus, then fourteen years Fig. 30. A first-prize French Coach coh at a show in France. Photograph by James B. McLaughhn. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re
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