. Riding and driving. PLATE VU. —POLO PONY. PLATE VIII. —LIGHT-HARNESS HORSE Points of the Horse 199 to mean free and high action. The contrary istrue. Such a horse can travel all day on a tin-plate. The ribs should be well rounded from above tobelow, should be definitely separated, and of fulllength. A horse with flat, short ribs near togethermust, anatomically, be lacking in power. Thechest should be deep, but not excessively depth of the chest measured around shouldbe large. When a horse is pointed out to youas being well ribbed up, this does not mean thata line drawn from the bott
. Riding and driving. PLATE VU. —POLO PONY. PLATE VIII. —LIGHT-HARNESS HORSE Points of the Horse 199 to mean free and high action. The contrary istrue. Such a horse can travel all day on a tin-plate. The ribs should be well rounded from above tobelow, should be definitely separated, and of fulllength. A horse with flat, short ribs near togethermust, anatomically, be lacking in power. Thechest should be deep, but not excessively depth of the chest measured around shouldbe large. When a horse is pointed out to youas being well ribbed up, this does not mean thata line drawn from the bottom of his chest alonghis belly should slope abruptly upward like agreyhound; on the contrary, the loins and back,at the point slightly behind where the cantle ofa saddle would come, should be broad, flat, andpowerful-looking, and there should be no appear-ance of being tucked in, or tucked up, at thehinder end of the back and loins. A line drawnaround the horses body from the top of the withersto the elbow-joint, and from the point of th
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