SADDLE GROUP OR TYPE 



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horses. The American or Saddle-bred type is a complement 

 to the gaited saddle horse, except that it is trained only 

 to go the three gaits. It is customary also to dock and pull 

 the manes. The Thoroughbred type is represented in the 

 better shaped Thoroughbreds which possess the three dis- 

 tinctive gaits, the walk, trot, and canter, in a distinctive form. 



Fig. G3. — Five-gaited saddler. 



This type of three-gaited horse is usually undocked and the 

 mane hogged. 



Gaited Saddle Horse. — ^The gaited saddle horse is exem- 

 plified in the five-gait attainments, namely: the walk, trot, 

 canter, rack and running walk, fox trot or slow pace. Many 

 of the gaited saddle horses are of pure-bred saddle-horse 

 origin, although those of grade origin having the standard 

 five-gait requirements are so classified. 



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