10 ON THE EXTERNAL CONFORMATION. 



As deformity is constituted by a want of 

 harmony in the component parts, it will not be 

 difficult to perceive, that a long head and a 

 short neck, or a short head and a long neck, 

 cannot be esteemed handsome. 



The neck should proceed in a line from the 

 top of the head, forming a regular progressive 

 curve to the withers. The trachea or windpipe 

 should be large in diameter, and somewhat de- 

 tached from the fleshy part of the neck. The 

 size of its diameter has a considerable influence 

 in respiration. Large windpipes are peculiar to 

 blood horses, whence, probably, they are better 

 winded than all others. The chief beauty of 

 the forehand depends on the union of the neck 

 with the shoulders. The neck should issue 

 high, and nearly in a line with the withers, and 

 its lower part should enter the chest high, and 

 above the point of the shoulders: the opposite con- 

 formation to this produces what is termed an ewe 

 neck, which can never be esteemed handsome. 



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