AS TO SOUNDNESS. 



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well known that a march of any length would lame them 

 by " springing a curb " afresh. Now I have told you all 

 this in order to draw your attention to the fact that the 

 nearer to a right angle the tibia makes with the parts below 

 it in the human being and the horse, the more does the 

 line of weight pass through the calcaneo cuboid ligament 

 (the ligament which is sprained and inflamed to con- 

 stitute a curb), and it follows that the more this condition 

 exists the more you must look for results at the back of 

 the hock in the one case, and under surface of the foot in 

 the other case. Then again, you will have heard judges 

 of horses say they like a big, flat, square hock, (they 



mean the iytner aspect of the hock, and not the outer), 



and they are quite right too, as I shall show you presently. 

 Let us draw a big, flat, square hock (Fig 6). It will be 



Fig. 6. 



seen that the squareness is only approximate, and the flat- 

 ness, if you look at such a hock, you will also find is not 



