REMOUNTS 



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small that it does not pay breeders to cater exclusively for the 

 army. Consequently our remount officers have to take mis- 

 fits from the hunter and light harness classes, with the result 

 of lack of uniformity, and a very undesirable admixture of the 

 harness, if not of the cart blood element. Thus, among a large 

 number of cavalry horses in England, we find that many of 



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FIG. 26. Remount. 



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them are too heavily "topped" for the quality of their legs. 

 In making a .comparison between the cavalry horses of the 

 two countries, 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 appear to be ; but 



