. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. i . 'IW 86 THE HORSE. peculiar and distinct family of the American horse, and again when treating of the theory and system of breeding in general. Now, briefly, to revert to the subject matter whence I have recently been led devious, I would remark that the attempt to reproduce the Scottish Galloway, of which I have spoken as a failure, was simply the stinting clever, active, pony-mares of twelve and a half or thirteen hands in liei
. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. i . 'IW 86 THE HORSE. peculiar and distinct family of the American horse, and again when treating of the theory and system of breeding in general. Now, briefly, to revert to the subject matter whence I have recently been led devious, I would remark that the attempt to reproduce the Scottish Galloway, of which I have spoken as a failure, was simply the stinting clever, active, pony-mares of twelve and a half or thirteen hands in lieight, purposely select- ed for their shape, legs, feet, general soundness and hardihood, and easy action, to thoroughbred stallions of the best blood, chosen with as much care as the dams, low in stature, but bony and close-ribbed up, with the line heads and necks, the sloping shoulders and thin withers of the oriental type. From this union was produced a stock of extremely neat, liighly bred and finely formed animals, with pretty action and a fair turn of s])eed. These are the animals which are used as boys' hunters, up to the time when the aspiring Etonian or Harrowite is supposed to be arrived at the supreme height of his ambition, the capacity to manage a hoi*se. I have myself ridden, in my younger days, two and three- part bred Galloways, from an original pony stock, which, with a boy's seven or eight stone upon their backs, were quite able to hold their own and live, not perhaps quite in the first flight, but in a very fair place, among hard-riding and well-mounted men, through a racing run with fox-hounds, and win a brush for their rider at the end. On these same Galloways the young ladies of the family learn to ride, while the masculines of the rising generation are construiwg Homer, cricketing, or sculling wherries on the Thames; and ultimately, as the boys, promoted into men, as- cend the backs of veritable horses, the girls obtain possession of the little favorites, t
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