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291 Americans horses are, speaking generally, better than ours. Their average is higher. Though we probably in most classes have some animals that are more showy & even better adapted to their work yet certainly they have fewer poor unclear. With us everything that is in the form of a horse fetches money from the stylish pair which everybody notices in the Park down to costermonger's poney. Manifestly inferior animals do not appear to be bred at all in America. There is a point they do not fall below, & that point admits of bone & blood enough to be noticed.

Their horses have another merit also. As a general rule they do just what is required of them, & nothing more. It is rare to see one that jibs, or shies, or stumbles, o misbehaves himself in any way.