48 Manual of Equitation and Horse Training 



resist the ordinary causes of weakness; from substance 

 which is endurance under any usage. 



Good character permits quality to be completely 

 utilized. 



Quality in the horse comes from divers sources; it is 

 influenced by substantial feeding from early age; some 

 limestone regions increase the development of framework 

 and density of tissue in horses born or raised there; above 

 all it is influenced by the breeding of the horse. 



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Breeding. — The necessity for the Army is a comfortable, 

 strongly limbed type of horse, capable of carrying weight, 

 with the qualities of endurance and energy which the 

 thoroughbred stallion alone transmits. 



The pedigree of the horse should therefore show a 

 goodly number of thoroughbred ancestors. In breeding 

 there should be a proper balance established between the 

 progenitors of the thoroughbred race charged with keep- 

 ing up the "blood" and the half breds who maintain the 

 size. 



