How would you explain this sentence? As shown in late-19th-century photographs, the entire school at Saumur—lieutenants, second lieutenants, and horsemen, black jackets and blue jackets (never pale enough for the men of the light-horse!), training horses, race horses and cavalry horses—whipped itself into a murderous frenzy while participating in notoriously dif¬ficult trials. It took a total of seventy-seven falls to make a cavalryman. Some Sundays at Verrie more spills were registered than starts. No one at the finish! Crazy officers. But what charm! What elegance! With their foulard caps, slender waists (corseted, some said), perfectly fitted jack-ets, and collars that could never be too high, men indis-putably had the advantage in that fin-de-siecle era. Meanwhile women—with their overload of ornament— looked like haystacks. How would you explain the sentence in brackets: never pale enough for the men of the light-horse? Thanks!