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MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



appears to be more or less associated with the gait, 

 though many persons state this is not necessarily true. 



The height is exceedingly variable, averaging 15 to i6 

 hands, and good weights are 900 pounds for mares and 

 1,150 pounds for stallions. 



The trotting and pacing standard. — "When an animal 



FIG. 76.— STANDARDBRED STALLION "BINGARA" 



meets these requirements and is duly registered, it shall 

 be accepted as a Standardbred trotter: 



"r. The progeny of a registered standard trotting horse 

 and a registered standard trotting mare. 



"2. A stallion sired by a registered standard trotting 

 horse, provided his dam and granddam were sired by 

 registered standard trotting horses, and he himself has 

 a record of 2.30 and is the sire of three trotters with 

 records of 2.30 from different mares. 



