. The horse and his diseases;. at are the very model of what draught-horses should be;combining immense power with great quickness, a very respect-able turn of speed, fine show, and good action. These animals have almost invariably lofty crests, thin withers,and well set-on heads; and, although they are emphaticallydraught-horses, they have none of that shagginess of mane, tail,and fetlocks, which indicates a descent from the black horseof Lincolnshire, and none of that peculiar curliness or wavihess 58 THE -VERMONT DRAUGHT-HORSE. which marks the existence of Canadian or Norman blood
. The horse and his diseases;. at are the very model of what draught-horses should be;combining immense power with great quickness, a very respect-able turn of speed, fine show, and good action. These animals have almost invariably lofty crests, thin withers,and well set-on heads; and, although they are emphaticallydraught-horses, they have none of that shagginess of mane, tail,and fetlocks, which indicates a descent from the black horseof Lincolnshire, and none of that peculiar curliness or wavihess 58 THE -VERMONT DRAUGHT-HORSE. which marks the existence of Canadian or Norman blood formany generations, and which is discoverable in the manes andtails of very many of the Morgan horses. The peculiar characteristics of these horses are, however, theshortness of their backs, the roundness of their barrels, and thecloseness of their ribbing-up. One would say, that they areponies, until he comes to stand beside them, when he is as-tonished to find that they are oftenerover, than under, sixteen hands in THE VERMONT DRAUGHT-HORSE. Nine out of ten of these horses are from Vermont; and not onlyare they the finest animals in all the United States, for thequick draught of heavy loads, but the mares of this stock areincomparably the likeliest, from which, by a well-chosen tho-rough-bred sire, to raise the most magnificent carriage-horses inthe world. As to the source of this admirable stock of horses, it may be THE VERMONT DRAUGHT-HORSE. 59 said, that the size, the action, the color, the comparative free-dom from hair on the limbs, the straightness of the longer hairsof the mane and tail, and the quickness of movement, would atonce lead one to suspect a large cross, perhaps the largest ofany, on the original mixed country horse, of Cleveland are, however, some points in almost all of these horses,which must be referred to some other foreign cross than theCleveland, not thorough bred, and certainly, as above remarked,not Norman or Canadian, of which
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