TYPES OF HORSES. 



(Published in "Kentucky- Stock Farm." December 29, 1892.) 



Did you ever buy a horse ? 



Did it ever strike you that you couldn't tell a runner 

 from a trotter, or a hackney from a pony, or a coach 

 horse from a pacer? And yet there are points about fine 

 horses that mark each as typical of a class. 



The distinctions in breeds are many, and the eye of the 

 good horseman can class an animal the moment he catches 

 a glimpse of it. He judges it by conformation, by action, 

 by size, by disposition. He can tell in an instant if a 

 horse is "bloodlike," and by the contour of the head can 

 almost call off the pedigree. The thorough or running- 

 bred horse is best judged in his racing form. He is 

 lighter boned than the trotter, or, in fact, than the horses 

 of any other breed, more nervous in disposition, higher 

 strung, and has a cleaner and finer look. He has what in 

 racing parlance we term a "bloodlike" look. When used 

 for breeding purposes his form is different, and he is 

 somewhat more difficult to judge. But in racing form his 

 fine ears, clean cut head, light neck, the fine coat on his 

 body, and the lack of hair on the fetlocks, tell you on the 

 instant that he can trace his ancestry down through seven 

 or more generations of thoroughbred lines. I consider 

 Don Alonzo, who sold recently for $30,000. the finest type 

 of this class I know? Eros is another fine type of the 

 class. Then, too, the action tells you the difference. In, 

 the thoroughbred it is generally low and of the "daisy- 



