Show size of carriage A bew york horse buyer recently said A horse that Is 15 2 hands high and put up right with plenty of bone substance and quality Is big enough to do any kind of work that a car ariage horse Is called on to do in nine cases out of ten a horse of this size will outwork and outwear a horse of sixteen hands or higher you see he isn t so likely to pound himself to pieces on the hard pavements tor one thing then again he has better corn mand of his legs than a tall horse has and therefore doean doesn t tire so quickly of course large horses are required for large carriages on account of appear ance A horse no higher than 15 2 hands would lonii like a pony in front ot some broughams and a pair of this size booked to an opera bus seating elx or eight persons would spoil the appearance of the whole equipage no matter how handsome the horses might be but aside from the looks of the thing a short legged big bodied four cornered horse of the size I 1 have named could do the work and do it fully as well as one a full hand taller |