Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 



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mines a pony's adaptability for the game. The object of breeders is 

 to produce a pony 14-2 hands high, able to carry from 168 to 200 

 pounds for ten minutes in a fast game. 



The polo pony should be built like a weight-carrying hunter. His 

 head should be well set on, wide between the jaws, with plenty of room 

 at the throttle. He should have a big, clear, sound, prominent eye; 

 small, pricked ears, indicative of alertness; a well-formed, well-arched, 

 and muscular neck; a fine, sloping shoulder; not too fine at the withers, 

 and his breast should be ample and in proportion to the remainder of 

 the forequarters. His forearms should be big and powerful, the knees 

 wide, particularly good under the knee, with a short cannon. The 

 fetlocks should be large and clean, the pasterns well supplied with bone, 



Fig. 182. — The polo pony in action. 



and of proper slope and strength. The foot should be of good size, 

 smooth, nicely shaped, the heels open, and the frog well developed and 

 elastic. 



He should be deep from withers to sternum, and fairly wide 

 through the chest; he should be short in the back, well coupled, ribbed 

 close up to the hip, with plenty of muscle behind the saddle. His 

 thighs and quarters should be big and powerful, and the gaskin should 

 bulge with muscle also. The hock should be broad and flat, with the 

 natural prominences clean-cut and well developed. The tendon of 

 Achilles should be well defined and powerful. There should be great 

 bone below the hock, and in other respects the hind leg should be 

 similar to the fore one. 



