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TYPES AND BREEDS OF HORSES Continued. 



secure a maximum normal growth. Diseases like heaves, roaring, moon- 

 blindness and weakened, malformed limbs predisposed to curbs, spavins, ring- 

 bone and other diseases of the feet and limbs and which are hereditary, should 

 be avoided both in the mare and in the stallion. 



Breeding Light Horses. Particular emphasis must be placed upon purity 

 of breeding and breeding in line where one undertakes to produce light horses. 

 This system of breeding is highly essential to the successful production of 

 this type of horses. Families or strains that have excelled in the type, quality, 

 disposition and spirit desirable must be depended upon. A carriage horse is 

 heavier than the roadster, but weight is less important than style and action 

 in both types. Cold blooded, indifferent light horses are misfits incapable of 

 high development and may be regarded unprofitable. 



Judging Horses. It is important to be able to judge a horse and know 

 his value. One's ability to exercise good judgment in the selectior) of horses 

 is developed largely by learning to know all the parts of the horse and their 

 relationship to one another in forming a well-balanced body. With this there 

 must be the proper disposition, energy and training that combines to enable 

 the horse to do its work efficiently. Practice makes perfect when one has 

 learned the parts and disposition of horses and acquired the ability to observe 



