RELATIONS BETWEEN HEIGHT AND LENGTH OF BODY. 171 



been added by a very skilful artist, the late Mr. Oswald 



Brown. 



We see from the foregoing table, that some three and 

 four year-old race-horses of the best class are 3 or 4 inches 

 higher at the withers (and at the croup) than they are long 

 in the body ; and that the Shire horse, which is the most 

 powerful of all horses, is about 9 inches longer than he is 



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Photo by'\ 



[DixoN & Sons. 



Fig. 274.— Mr. A. B. Freeman-Mitford's Shire Mare, Chance. 



high. The difference between the two types with respect 

 to their length of leg, as compared to their depth of chest, 

 is equally well marked. The intermediate classes, m this 

 respect, partake, as a rule, of the characteristics of the 

 respective types to which they are most nearly allied 

 Thus if we take Ormonde (Frontispiece) as the highest 

 type 'of the race-horse, we shall find that the distance 

 from the top of his withers to his brisket, if apphed down 

 his fore leg, will reach from his brisket only to the bottom 



