SETTING-ON OF THE HEAD. 



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on the part of the horse to bend his head freely. 

 The beautiful manner in which the neck " runs into " the 

 head of some horses, is due to the arrangement of the 

 bones of the neck and to the lean and well-developed 

 condition of the muscles. The profile of this junction 

 will, then, form a curve which will be a fitting commence- 

 ment of the graceful, undulating line that sweeps over 

 the neck, shghtly dips in front of the withers, over which 



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[Clarence hailey, Newmarket. 

 Fig. 308.— Mr. J. Gubbins's Ard Patrick, 



it curves, and rising a httle along the back, swells boldly 

 over the loins and quarters, dips again at the root of the 

 dock, and, finally, ends in the flowing lines of the tail. The 

 setting-on of the head and the curves alluded to were beau- 

 tifully exemphfied in St. Simon, whose photograph (Fig. 

 16) is not nearly so good as I would have wished. These 

 points also come out well in Ard Patrick (Fig. 308), 

 Favonius (Fig. 420), Predominant (Fig. 278), and 



