1 20 EXAMINA TION OF HORSES 



it most in horses that have the most hock action, and 

 are so bent as to admit of extreme flexion ; hence our 

 big, flat, square hock, which we have before seen is 

 necessarily a straight hock, and therefore one not subject 

 to extreme flexion, is rarely^ very rarely, the subject of 

 spavin. 



