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of veins on the surface of face, shoulders, lower part of 

 body, and upper part of limbs, are expressive of quality 

 and superior breeding. So also the prominent, delicate 

 nostril is a sign of quality. 



The temperament of the light harness horse is natu- 

 rally nervous, indicating the desire for action. Of an active 

 type, he is well fitted for speed and motion. If sleepy and 

 dull, a vital quality of the type is lacking. Too lively tem- 

 perament is undesirable, but the horse should manifest an 

 interest in his surroundings, and express animation to a 

 degree indicating both intelligence and potent muscular 

 activity. In disposition, we find wide extremes among light 

 harness horses, due to differences in inheritance. In gen- 

 eral horses of this class are of good disposition and not 

 given to biting, kicking or other meanness to any unusual 



degree. The judge is justified 

 in attaching importance to 

 disposition as closely related 

 to temperament, and as dis- 

 tinctive of the type. 



The head of the light har- 

 ness horse should be lean and 

 shapely, the profile showing 

 quite straight from ears to 

 nose. Craig makes the obser- 

 vation ^ that in scanning the 

 photographs of a great num- 

 ber of trotters, "nearly all 

 stallions have slight Roman 

 noses while most of the mares 

 have slightly dished faces, a 

 distinction which seems to be 

 characteristic of the sexes." 

 A very prominent Roman 

 nose he regards as indicative 



Fig. 72. — "The profile showing 

 quite straight from ears to nose." 



•Judgins Live Stock, 6th ed., 1904, p. 21. 



