. Elements of hippology. Horses. ELEMENTS OF HIPPOLOGY. 15 that have proven to be useful in cross-country galloping. It is performance that makes a hunter. The polo-pony is another type of saddle-horse that depends absolutely on his individual per- formances to make him of any value in his class. Excellent polo-ponies are bred from small mares of the mustang type by Arabian or Spanish barb sires. The best ponies are usually eith- er thoroughbred, or have a strong strain of thoroughbred in their pedigrees. In the United States there have been developed three strains of horses that are worthy of
. Elements of hippology. Horses. ELEMENTS OF HIPPOLOGY. 15 that have proven to be useful in cross-country galloping. It is performance that makes a hunter. The polo-pony is another type of saddle-horse that depends absolutely on his individual per- formances to make him of any value in his class. Excellent polo-ponies are bred from small mares of the mustang type by Arabian or Spanish barb sires. The best ponies are usually eith- er thoroughbred, or have a strong strain of thoroughbred in their pedigrees. In the United States there have been developed three strains of horses that are worthy of spe- cial notice on account of the in- fluence each has had on the qual- ity of the horses of the nation. These strains are the American standard trotter, the American or Kentucky saddle-horse, and the Morgan horse. The trotter is the result of an effort to produce the best animal for racing under harness. The first horse to trot a mile in harness in less than three minutes was Yankee, who performed that feat at Harlem, N. Y., in 1806. It took a hundred years of the most careful breeding to pass the two-minute mark, and breeders are still trying to reduce the present record of 1:58J^, made by Lou Dillon in 1903. The influence of remarkable individuals is singularly shown in the breeding of American trotters of record. In 1884 there were in the neighborhood of 6,000 horses in the United States that had. Figure 7.—A Polo-Pony. Courtesy of M. W. Smith, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Marshall, F. C. (Francis Cutler), 1867-; United States Military Academy. Dept. of Tactics. Kansas City : Hudson press
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