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CHAPTER XXVI. 



REMARKS ON VARIOUS BREEDS OF HORSES. 



The English Thoioughbied — The English Half-bied Hoise — The Shiie 

 Horse — The Suffolk Horse oi Suffolk Punch — The Cleveland Bay — The 

 Yoikshire Coach Hoise— The Hackney — The Exmoor Pony — The 

 New Forest Pony — The Dartmoor Pony — The Clydesdale — The 

 Shetland Pony — The West Highland Pony — The Welsh Pony — 

 Australasian Horses — The Noiwegian Pony — The Iceland Pony — 

 Ameiican Ponies — 'American Trotters — South Afucan Horses — South 

 Ameiican Hoises — Aiab Hoises — East Indian Hoises — Buima and 

 Manipuii Ponies — Sumatia and Java Ponies — Mongolian Pomes— 

 Coiean Ponies — Japanese Ponies, 



The English Thoroughbred — I have said so much in 

 the previous chapter on English race-horses, that I shall 

 content myself here with making a few general remarks. 

 As a rule, the chief merits of English thoroughbreds are 

 Speed, early maturity, and the fact of their being '^well 

 topped " ; their chief defects, weediness, deficiency of bone 

 below the knees and hocks, and uprightness of fore 

 pasterns. Hence, we find among them a far greater 

 number of light-weight sprinters that are incapable of stand- 

 ing much work, than sound stayers which can carry a fair 

 weight, and which will '' train on." The English thorough- 

 bred, or nearly thoroughbred, pony, like Predominant, 

 Lord Clyde, Mulberry, Sylvia, Mike, Bustle, Deuce of 

 Diamonds, and Dynamite, is certainly the best of its class 

 in the world, whether for racing or polo. I am inclined 

 to think that in comparison, say, with blood horses in 

 Australia, English thoroughbreds under 15 hands are 

 better than those over that height. If this be the case, 

 the facts that big horses are more liable to become roarers 



