OUR SADDLE-HORSES. 6V 



move in all their paces, thus sparing the rider 

 any feeling of fatigue. Not only is the number 

 of such horses in this country become very 

 limited, but those we have usually display 

 early some of the infirmities to which their 

 race has become so subject. 



We could not, under any system of manage- 

 ment, expect to produce horses capable of 

 carrying eighteen and twenty stones of weight 

 while having the agreeable action and high 

 breeding of horses that are only wanted to 

 carry much lighter weights. But once able to 

 produce a great number of saddle-horses full 

 of good blood, and yet able to carry fourteen 

 stones of weight in the best manner, and we 

 shall have no difficulty in producing, by the 

 aid of a cross with a lower, but stronger breed 

 of horses, the finest cavalry horses in the 

 world. 



It is not necessary to a good cavalry horse 

 to have the best class of shoulders, but these 

 must be strong, and the fore-feet not so far 

 back as to make the horse ■' stand over," as it 

 is called, like a cart-horse. A good cavalry 

 horse must join, to great physical power, suf- 

 ficient breeding to render him active and en- 



