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TYPES AND BREEDS 



the finish and style characteristic of all park horses, and are 

 usually saddle bred, while road hacks are of a somewhat plainer 

 but more serviceable stamp, capable of taking a run cross coxintry 

 in connection with a road ride, if desired. 



There is also a tendency to differentiate between the Saddle 

 bred walk-trot-cantcr saddle horse and the one of Thoroughbred 

 breeding and type. The former is characterized by high car- 



FiG. 51. — A steeple chaser, showing the speed type and saddle form of the running race horse. 



riage of head aud tail, alleged to resemble that of a peacock, 

 more knee and hock action and usually less substance — the latter 

 by a more exclusively saddle form perhaps, but too often an 

 erratic disposition and a low going trot, that are not conducive 

 to either a safe or satisfactory ride (Fig. 54). Some most ac- 

 ceptable representatives of the latter type have been brought 

 out, however. Saddle horses are classified on the basis of height 

 and the 'weight to which they are up. 



