. Types and market classes of live stock. lackpoints. Disposition.—This is of great importance in order to in-sure the safety of other horses, the hounds, and the hunters are tremendous pullers, in fact, defy all attemptsto hold them. There is great difference in temperament anddisposition—one hunter will rush at his fences in a recklessand headstrong way, and another will even walk to his jump 388 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock and clear it in a businesslike manner. It is because so manyThoroughbreds have bad dispositions, that horses having asmall amount of draft blood are
. Types and market classes of live stock. lackpoints. Disposition.—This is of great importance in order to in-sure the safety of other horses, the hounds, and the hunters are tremendous pullers, in fact, defy all attemptsto hold them. There is great difference in temperament anddisposition—one hunter will rush at his fences in a recklessand headstrong way, and another will even walk to his jump 388 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock and clear it in a businesslike manner. It is because so manyThoroughbreds have bad dispositions, that horses having asmall amount of draft blood are often more desirable as hunt-ers than are those of straight Thoroughbred breeding. Production of hunters.—There is no breed of are largely of Thoroughbred breeding, about seven partsThoroughbred and one part cold (draft) blood being a gen-erally accepted formula in breeding hunters. This proportionis secured by mating a three-quarter-blood mare with a Thor-oughbred stallion of correct type to get hunters. The infusion. Fig. 106. A Hunt Team and Pack of Fox Hounds. of cold blood gives greater size and ruggedness and a betterdisposition, but is said to lessen to some extent the stayingqualities and gameness of the animal. Some most excellenthunters have come of straight Thoroughbred breeding. Ire-land has long enjoyed a wide reputation for the rearing andsale of the best hunting horses—the name Irish huntercarrying the idea of super-excellence in this type of horse,even if some so named were in reality bred in places far re-moved from the Emerald Isle. Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 389 The Polo Pony. Modern polo is largely a rich mans game. It is playedwith four mounted men on a side, the object being to drivea wooden ball between goal posts at the ends of a field 300yards long and 120 to 150 yards wide. Each player carriesa long-handled mallet of regulation design. It is a very fastgame for both ponies and men, requiring quickness and pre-cision. H
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