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TYPES AND BREEDS 



Quality, general refinement and finish to enhance good looks. 



Temperament, active, stjlish, proud, bold, and courageous. 



The actor or high going horse is such structui'ally and tem- 

 peramentally. He must possess a general svippleness and flexi- 

 bility that is found only with length of shoulder and pastern, 

 neck and croup. But tliis is true in equal degree of the saddle 

 horse. The actor, in addition, is close made in profile, full made 

 from the end, in order that he may better fit heavy leather and 



Fig. 36. — A weight carrier, illustrating the bone and muscular development which with a 

 short back and legs render a horse "up to" two hundred pounds or more. 



conform to tlie heavy vehicles to which he is put. Furthermore, 

 he must not only possess joints of such angles as to permit of 

 extreme flexion, but he must be thoroughly disposed so to go, bend- 

 ing himself in every joint from the ground to the tip of his chin 

 and to the last segment of his abbreviated dock. Height of stride 

 is his, and he miist have the style and finish to properly set off 

 the show he is to make. 



Saddle Type. — The saddle horse must carry weight from 135 

 to 200 pounds or over, with greatest satisfaction to his rider and 



