. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. August 24, 1901] the ^Breeder mxtt gipavTsmmt The Saddle Horse Situation. Nearly every saddle horse dealer in New York who caters to high class trade has an open order, unlimited in price, for the best saddle horse that can he found. It is not a lack of buyers. It is a shortage of horses. The especial demand is for show horses and purse strings are loosed. Each man and woman inter- ested in the shows wants a winner and is willing to pav for it. They can win money on the track in all kinds of shapes or misshapes, it matters what not, but beauty of form is demand
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. August 24, 1901] the ^Breeder mxtt gipavTsmmt The Saddle Horse Situation. Nearly every saddle horse dealer in New York who caters to high class trade has an open order, unlimited in price, for the best saddle horse that can he found. It is not a lack of buyers. It is a shortage of horses. The especial demand is for show horses and purse strings are loosed. Each man and woman inter- ested in the shows wants a winner and is willing to pav for it. They can win money on the track in all kinds of shapes or misshapes, it matters what not, but beauty of form is demanded in a winning saddle horse in the show ring. This market is the most exacting of all. The horse is first demanded, then education and instincts command full price nowadays. Standards are different now from those of the days when "bulls'' and cart horses won in the saddle classes because they could "carry weight.'' Horses that really look lone- some without a plow, won ribbons in the saddle classes at Eastern shows a decade ago. They want a real saddle horse now—one with beauty, style and finish, with educated mouth and gaits and with a disposition that reveals breeding in saddle horse blood. In naming the essentials of a high-priced saddle horse—handsome form, education and disposition—we rate them in the order of their relative importance for show ring purposes. We make no doubt, however, that the time will come, if it is not already here with many good patrons of the saddle horse, when disposi- tion will rank first instead of last in the list. An ill- shaped horse is offensive to the educated artistic eye, hut for practical purposes and for safety such a horse of suitable disposition is far more valuable than an ani- mal beautiful in form and finish but reprehensible and unreliable in disposition. With unvarying insistence the Gazette has preached the breeding of saddle horses from saddle horse blood, knowing how beyond all price is the disposition, the inst
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