The horse and the war . y draught. Thethoroughbred, the three-quarter and half-bred thoroughbred just as naturallyhave played the part of the charger, and no horse ever bred in America canbeat the British riding-horse with thoroughbred blood in his veins. Thepony bred in these islands has been a valuable asset, and hereafter many aman will bear tribute to his charger which has been a pony and classed forservice purposes as an officers cob. The Hackney horse has been utilized,but this breed produced but a handful as it were of the hundreds ofthousands bought for our Armies. The point to bear in
The horse and the war . y draught. Thethoroughbred, the three-quarter and half-bred thoroughbred just as naturallyhave played the part of the charger, and no horse ever bred in America canbeat the British riding-horse with thoroughbred blood in his veins. Thepony bred in these islands has been a valuable asset, and hereafter many aman will bear tribute to his charger which has been a pony and classed forservice purposes as an officers cob. The Hackney horse has been utilized,but this breed produced but a handful as it were of the hundreds ofthousands bought for our Armies. The point to bear in mind is that, though America has sent us chargers,troop horses and cobs, that country must always be gratefully rememberedfor the light draught. He is the horse which has come in numbers quite outof proportion to other classes. He is the horse most typical of the millionsof imports. Hardiness, placidity of temper, strength and power, virility ofconstitution, with what is called good heart, versatility and extraordinary. •01 es ?00 g •3 a 83 .M&SS 22 THE HORSE AND THE WAR activity for his size and weight—these are characteristics that have impressedthemselves for all time on all who have had to do with him. The riding-horsefrom America is on the whole deceptive. He is usually high in the withers,suggesting that the shoulders are sloping and that he must carry the saddle inthe right place. The truth is that the shoulder is straight more often thannot, and the scapula narrow with a consequent loss of freedom inaction which the riding man perfectly well understands. There are, of course,exceptions, and, perhaps, what is lost in positive correctness of action iscompensated for by that measure of comfort to be derived from the lope or tittupping gait of the Yankee saddle horse. But, whatever the class of horse, the fact remains that when they arrivein this country they come to us raw and rough to a degree, unkempt, raggedand mere caricatures of horses. We may pass over the tim
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