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cold. He is not good looking in the same sense as the park 

 horse, but has, nevertheless, a most impressive appearance, as a 

 horse of great resourcefulness and serviceability. Size is being 

 more and more insistently demanded by buyers and users of 



Fig. 53. — A walk-trot-canter horse, showing the mold of fornit the extreme refinement 

 of head and neck, the peacocky carriage, the style and intelligence that are representative 

 in highest degree of the American idea of a saddle horse of this class. 



hunters, and for apparently good reasons. In the first place, a 

 five-foot jump is four inches lower for a 16-hand horse than for 

 one of 15 hands height. Many hunting folk are in the sport to 

 keep doAvn their weight, so that it takes a horse of some size 

 to be up to the weight at which they ride. Finally, the big 



