248 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



A CHOICE PARK HOUSE— MANY TIMES A BLUE RIBBON WINNER. 



This is a horse of extremely high action. Such horses are seldom as stockily 

 built as other carriage horses. The prime essential of the Park Horse is that he 

 should be high acting both at knees and hocks. As well as being high, the action 

 should be straight forward and open without winging or interfering. The action 

 should be regular as if the feet were put down in rhythmical order. On 

 account of extremely high action a great amount of speed is seldom secured. 

 Height of this horse, 15-3 hands; weight, 1100 pounds. 



The demand for park horses greatly exceeds the supply, as they have never 

 been produced in great enough numbers to equal the demand and probably never 

 will be. Breeders trying to produce them succeed with only a small percentage 

 of the colts reared. 



Park horses possess much of the coach horse type In that they must be 

 symmetrical, with well rounded bodies and an abundance of quality and action. 

 In reality, they are the "cream" of the small coach horse. They are strictly a 

 dress horse and as their name indicates one which a lady or gentleman would 

 want to drive in a park, and are hitched singly to a cart or tandem or to a gig. A 

 solid color is more desirable than one with white markings. It is not considered 

 In good taste for a lady to drive a strikingly marked, extremely high Acting horse. 



