Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . 248 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK A CHOICE PARK HOUSE—MANY TIMES A BLUE RIBBON WINNER. This is a horse of extremely high action. Such horses are seldom as stockilybuilt as other carriage horses. The prime essential of the Park Horse is that heshould be high acting both at knees and hocks. As well as be
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . 248 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK A CHOICE PARK HOUSE—MANY TIMES A BLUE RIBBON WINNER. This is a horse of extremely high action. Such horses are seldom as stockilybuilt as other carriage horses. The prime essential of the Park Horse is that heshould be high acting both at knees and hocks. As well as being high, the actionshould be straight forward and open without winging or interfering. The actionshould be regular as if the feet were put down in rhythmical order. Onaccount of extremely high action a great amount of speed is seldom of this horse, 15-3 hands; weight, 1100 pounds. The demand for park horses greatly exceeds the supply, as they have neverbeen produced in great enough numbers to equal the demand and probably neverwill be. Breeders trying to produce them succeed with only a small percentageof the colts reared. Park horses possess much of the coach horse type In that they must besymmetrical, with well rounded bodies and an abundance of quality and reality, they are the cream of the
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