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Show THE HACKNEY HORSE. Action may be said to be the principal prin-cipal hackney attributes, as, while he may be blockicr than the ordinary at a walk or standstill, it is immediately immediate-ly after he begins to move at the trot that the whole attention of the beholder be-holder is riveted on the horse, of this breed, says a writer in one. of our exchanges. A good one will electrify a crowd by his action under the handler or driver, and the question naturally arises, "How docs he get it?" Well, if it is true hackney action is not born with him, it may be developed, de-veloped, or, at any rate, increased in height somewhat by practice and var- ions methods of handling over deep straw &c. It is simply grand when pure and true, safe when the hind "action is of the right sort, and at all times something to admire and wonder at if any approach to the rani thing. q . |