CHAPTER III 
THE LIGHT-HARNESS BREEDS OF HORSES 
Tue light-harness horse is rangy, long, light, angular, 
narrow and deep, that form which favors the longest, 
straightest stride, most rapidly done and frequently re- 
peated. The significance of the term has already been 
explained in the preceding chapter. 
Light-barness horses are used for road driving and 
harness racing and may be either trotters or pacers. 
AMERICAN STANDARDBRED Horses. Plate IV. 
By John A. Craig 
86. The trotting horse has entered more largely into 
the pleasures and uses of the American people than any 
of the other classes of light horses, although the gaited 
saddle horse has been to some extent a competitor in 
these directions in recent years. For trotting purposes on 
the track or on the road, no other strain or breed has 
approached the American Standardbred trotter. Its 
development to the present excellence is due wholly to the 
work of the American breeder, although most of the 
original material that entered into the foundation of the 
American Standardbred trotting horse came from outside 
sources. 
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