The horse and other live stock . y, or pure brown. These latter are espe-cially the dray-horse colors, and the points above specified arethose, in a great eieasure, of the improved dray-horse. Thecross of this blood in the present animal, if there be one, isdoubtless very remote; and, whether it may have come from asingle mixture of the dray stallion long since, or from somehalf-bred imported stallion, perhaps got by a three-part tho-rough bred and Clevelander from a dray mare, must, of course,be doubtful. One need have little hesitancy in asserting thatthe bay draught-horse of Vermont, has in
The horse and other live stock . y, or pure brown. These latter are espe-cially the dray-horse colors, and the points above specified arethose, in a great eieasure, of the improved dray-horse. Thecross of this blood in the present animal, if there be one, isdoubtless very remote; and, whether it may have come from asingle mixture of the dray stallion long since, or from somehalf-bred imported stallion, perhaps got by a three-part tho-rough bred and Clevelander from a dray mare, must, of course,be doubtful. One need have little hesitancy in asserting thatthe bay draught-horse of Vermont, has in its veins, principally iO THE CONESTOGA HORSE. Cleveland Bay blood, with some cross of thorough blood, oneat least, directly or indirectly, of the improved English dray-horse, and not impossibly a chance admixture of the Suffolk. THE CONESTOGA HORSE. In appearance this noble draught-horse approaches far morenearly to the improved Mght-class London dray-horse, and haslittle, if any, admixture of Cleveland Bay, and certainly none. ^^^?a^i^ A CONESTOGA—THE GREAT PENNSYLVANIA DRAUGHT-HORSB. of thoiough blood. He is a teamster, and a teamster only;6ut a very noble, a very honest, and a moderately quick-work-ing teamster. In size and power some of these great ani-mals employed in draught upon the railroad track in Marketstreet, Philadelphia, are little, if at all, inferior to the dray-horses of the best breweiies and distilleries in London [ many THE CONESTOGA HORSE. 61 of them coming fully up to the standard of seventeen or seven-teen and a half hands in height. In color, also, they follow the dray-horses; being more oftenblood-bays, brown, and dapple-grays than of any other bays and browns, moreover, are frequently dappled also intheir quarters, which is decidedly a dray-horse characteristicand beauty ; while it is, in some degree, a derogation to a horsepretending to much blood. This peculiarity is often observ-able also in the larger of the heavy Yermont draught-hors
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