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high-strung pony capable of carrying a heavy man 

 through a half-hour of strenuous play, might not, 

 and probably would not be capable of carrying the same 

 man forty or fifty miles a day. 



A trotting-bred horse, with one or more Morgan 

 crosses, will have the desired weight in addition to the 

 good qualities described by Lieutenant Parker. The 

 Morgan cross is prominent in many of our best trotters, 

 so that the material for breeding cavalry horses is 

 ready to hand. 



There is one criticism sometimes made both of the 

 Morgan and the trotting-bred as saddle horses. No 

 horse, these critics say, is fit for riding, unless he has 

 the extreme sloping shoulder of the thoroughbred and 

 of the Kentucky saddle horse. This kind of shoulder is 

 absolutely necessary, they declare, because without it, a 

 horse will neither be easy to ride, nor capable of car- 

 rying weight. But experience does not seem to bear 

 this out. The Morgan cavalry horse in the Civil War, 

 our cavalry In the recent expedition into Mexico, the 

 mustang and the broncho — the Arab himself — all 

 these anim.als are examples of endurance and service- 

 ability, notwithstanding the absence of the extreme 

 sloping shoulder. 



Not the slightest attention has been paid by Amer- 

 ican breeders to raising trotting-bred saddle horses — 

 they have been regarded as mere chance by-products; 

 and yet the trotting-bred saddle horse has already made 

 a reputation for himself, not only in this country but 

 in England and In Russia. 



A charger used in the present war by General Sir 



