556 



CONTINENTAL HORSES. 



of horses required for our cavalry on home service, is so 

 small that it does not pay breeders to cater exclusively 

 for the army. Consequently, our remount officers have 

 to take misfits from the hunter and hght harness classes, 

 with the result of lack of uniformity, and a very undesir- 

 able admixture of the harness, if not of the cart blood ele- 

 ment. Thus, among a large number of cavalry horses in 



I'"ii^. 554. — (jood type of Donsky Remount. 



England, we" find that many of them are too heavily 

 " topped," for the quality of their legs. In making a 

 comparison between the cavalry horses of the two coun- 

 tries, we must take into consideration that the Russian 

 horses are reared under conditions of privation and hard 

 work to get their living, and are consequently more useful 

 as slaves and campaigners than they might appear to 

 uninstructed eyes ; but the opposite to this may be said 



