CHAPTER III 

 THE LIGHT-HARNESS BREEDS OF HORSES 



THE light-harness horse is rangy, long, light, angular, 

 narrow and deep, that form which favors the longest, 

 straightest stride, most rapidly done and frequently re- 

 peated. The significance of the term has already been 

 explained in the preceding chapter. 



Light-harness horses are used for road driving and 

 harness racing and may be either trotters or pacers. 



AMERICAN STANDARDBRED HORSE. Plate IV. 

 By John A. Craig 



86. The trotting horse has entered more largely into 

 the pleasures and uses of the American people than any 

 of the other classes of light horses, although the gaited 

 saddle horse has been to some extent a competitor in 

 these directions in recent years. For trotting purposes on 

 the track or on the road, no other strain or breed has 

 approached the American Standardbred trotter. Its 

 development to the present excellence is due wholly to the 

 work of the American breeder, although most of the 

 original material that entered into the foundation of the 

 American Standardbred trotting horse came from outside 

 sources. 



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