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and people manage to find horses in that 

 way ; but for a harness horse you want a 

 certain amount of power and shape to fill 

 the eye and they are very difficult to get." 



The English breeder's choice of a sire 

 almost inevitably falls on a thoroughbred 

 horse if one be available, and the thorough- 

 bred has not the trotting action necessary in 

 a harness horse ; he has been bred to gallop, 

 not to trot, and his progeny will resemble 

 him. Sir Edward Greene said in reply to a 

 question put by Lord Rosebery that unless 

 the thorouo-hbred oet a hunter, "the horse 

 he gets is not a horse of great value from 



lack of action nothing is so 



valuable as a horse that steps well and that 

 a thoroughbred does not often get." 



TROTTING V. GALLOPING ACTION. 



The action of the horse at the trot differs 



w 



idely from the action at the gallop ; and 

 when it becomes necessary to perform a long 

 journey, which requires the horse to travel 

 on several successive days, the trot is the 

 pace on which dependance must be placed. 

 This was clearly understood in the six- 

 teenth century, as witness the law of Henry 

 VIII., referred to on pp. 57-58 ; to attempt 



