46 PURCHASING FROM THE STABLES. 



The annexed drawings will serve as a good index 

 to the foregoing description. The second is a beau- 

 tiful model of the proper form of a Light Dragoon 

 Charger, and an excellent cut as a general runner of 

 all races. The Racer and Hunter may look very 

 different to the 'same class of horse in England ; but 

 though the points should be the same, the Arab, in 

 consequence of his stature, which in some of the best 

 runners has not exceeded fourteen hands one and a 

 half inch, and from his having inherited nothing but 

 his native blood, assumes a very different appearance. 



A cavalry horse must partake of something of this 

 second form ; for a charger with a long back and 

 straight shoulder, that cannotbebrought on his haunch- 

 es, is as ridiculous as a racer with a bull-neck and a 

 camel's hind quarter, that cannot be got into a gallop; 

 both being about as useful to answer their trades as a 

 Newmarket carrier-pigeon without wings ; and yet, 

 such are continually purchased by Mr. Green and his 

 brother ; and the former not unfrequently sent to 

 the light cavalry. Another description chosen for 

 troopers, is the low Persian, or Gulph horse, often with- 

 out any breeding at all, sometimes having a roach 

 back, and consequently deformed quarter, drooping 

 to the elegant angle of fifty degrees ; such a brute 

 can neither be useful nor ornamental for any pur- 

 pose. A half-bred Arab, or well-formed Gulph horse, 

 of fourteen hands one inch high, may do very well as 

 a charger for a light weight of eight stone ; but a 

 good Kattywar, with his handsome crest and high 

 action, is worth a hundred Gulph fourteen hands one 

 inch tattoos.* Size, strength, and activity, with 



* Kattywar horses generally possess good action, but are often underlimb- 

 ed, and by their high action soon batter and bung their legs. ED. 



