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remained one hundred miles, and his horse got 

 the best report. A sailor has balance, and 

 given that mere form is not important. 



Type of Horse. We hired 'bus and cab 

 horses because they were cheap ; but in one of 

 the competitions were opposed by a group ol 

 horsemen riding their private hunters. Our 

 working horses finished fresh, and on time, but 

 the pleasure horses broke down and had to 

 come home by train. 



I might enter into the details of a dozen 

 other exercises which tested the indoor horse 

 and the English equipment, but all may be 

 summed up in a single broad generalization. 

 The pleasure horse and his equipment are so 

 highly specialized for runnmg and jumping 

 that they have ceased to possess the slightest 

 value for civil and military working horse- 

 manship. 



