THE TYPES OF HORSES 



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is distinctive of the steeple chaser. Then, too, tlie characteristics 

 associated with a runner may be somewhat accentuated in a 

 steeple chaser. 



Show Type. — So far as speed and power are concerned the 

 show horse requirements are intermediate. It is the manner in 

 which he moves and the appearance he makes while going, rather 

 than the pace or the weight of the load, which count. 



In order to qualify as a show horse he must possess : 



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Fig. 35. — The show type, representing the close and full made form, the quality and 

 style essential to look the part, and the sort of conformation that enables a horse to be 

 an actor. 



Form, close and full made, stout enough to pull a vehicle 

 designed after the English notion that " to drive handsomely is 

 to drive heavily," smoothly turned and rotund enough to har- 

 monize with the lines and proportions of the vehicle to which 

 he is put, and to look well before it (Fig. 3.5). 



Substance, present in a degree proportioned to the style and 

 weight of the vehicle concerned. 



