VI. 
SADDLE HORSES. 
HAT are the marks of a good saddle horse? 
Perhaps the most important one is the pos- 
session of “riding shoulders,” —i. e. long, sloping 
shoulders, terminating in rather high, thin withers. 
Such shoulders are indispensable for a good jumper, as 
a horse always lands on his fore feet, and they make 
the animal easy to sit. It was said of Fair Nell, the 
Trish mare who beat Haleem Pacha’s best Arab in 
an eight-mile race,! that “she had such beautiful 
shoulders, with so much before you, and with such 
an elastic stride, that it was easy, even delightful, 
to sit on her, although her temper was hot, and at 
times she plunged violently.” 
1 See page 119. 
