THE FOUR GROUPS OF HORSES 3 



of this group are also found in considerable numbers 

 in the city. They are used at light draft, delivery and 

 street -car work, and at any other light work where a 

 cheap horse, having more speed than the draft -horse 

 and more weight than the roadster, can be used to 

 advantage. 



(3) The third group is designed for drawing light 

 loads at a rapid pace. In America the term "roadster" 

 has come to be applied in a generic way to all of this 

 class, although some members of it are used exclusively 

 in competitive speed contests. 



(4) The fourth class comprises several breeds and 

 mixed - blood varieties of small horses known as 

 "ponies." Some trace their ancestry to the north of 

 Great Britain; others, first to southern and western 

 United States and thence back to Spain. 



The American, having all of these varied classes, 

 groups and subgroups from which to. select, and 

 having opportunity to put the horse to many uses, both 

 profitable and pleasurable; living in a country of 

 magnificent distances, traveling over roads that were 

 once bridle-paths and that are yet far from good; 

 having easy and constant communication with Great 

 Britain, and therefore many improved varieties of horses 

 to draw upon for foundation stock, has an inevitable 

 and an inherited love for the horse. It is no wonder, 

 then, that the American boy has always felt that he 

 was robbed of his inalienable rights unless he owned a 

 colt which was under his personal care and tutelage 

 and which was "truly" his when it had grown to 

 be a horse. 



