Identifier: americanaunivers08newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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manners enters very largely into the price consid-eration, and the schooling should be carried onto as high a point as the disposition of the in-dividual will admit. \\hile Action is not absolutely indispensable,it is nevertheless the feature that many amateurhorsemen will look for first, often neglectingmuch more important points to secure the flash-iness of the high actor. Many dealers say,Give me action and I can sell anything. With-out going to this extreme, it is undoubtedly truethat high action will cover many sins, and ifa horse will only get his head up and act* heis apt to be salable. Without action speed sel-dom attracts the citj* purchaser, and while it isundeniable that high action, except with carefuldriving and stable attention, will often cripplea horse on hard pavements who might otherwisego sound for years, the average high-price buyernot only asks for clean, straight action, butverges to the danger point in its height. Theexpert will seek horses having action both in
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1. Pure Arabian. 2. Arabian Stallion. 3. Shetland Pony. 4. Welsh Mountain Pony. 5. English Shire Stallion. 6. Clydedale Gelding. 7. French Coach Horse. 8. Engli.^ih Hacknev. I HORSES front and behind as he knows that without hockaction, little, if any, speed will be produced, thepropelling force lying in the power of the thighs.He will look at the horse going, coming andsideways, first to see that the horse neither toesin, paddles or interferes in front; second, to seethat he keeps his hocks close together as theypass, and consequently does not straddle orplace his hind legs at the extreme forward strideoutside of the line taken by his fore legs, orinterfere by brushing either fetlock joint; third,that he does not forge and that his action iseven when looked at from the side, each legadvancing at a stride the same distance andheight as the corresponding leg on the otherside. The only gait admissible in the heavy har-ness horse is a trot. Pacing, racking, single-footing, or any gait ot

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