252 SPECIAL POINTS OF V 1 PIOUS CLASSES OF IfOPSES. 



The Light Vanner, which we meet in vans, 'buses 

 and tram-cars, should be similar in type to field artillery- 

 wheelers ; in fact, active, light cart-horses that can trot 

 freely and at fair speed. 



The Polo Pony. — Handiness and speed, with sufficient 

 staying and weight-carrying power, are the two chief 

 requirements of the polo pony. Consequently, he should 

 be light in front, should carry his head and neck well, 

 have sloping shoulders and particularly strong hocks. 

 The fact of his being slightly ^'goose-rumped'' will be no 

 detriment. The best English polo ponies, such as the once 

 matchless Dynamite (Fig, 237), are animals which, but for 

 an accident of breeding, would have been high-class 

 hunters or brilliant chasers. Mr. E. D. Miller lays down, in 

 Modern Polo, the sound maxim that a polo pony should be 

 by a thoroughbred out of a mare by a thoroughbred. 



