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by quoting the opinions of Mr. Darvill,^ one of the 

 ablest writers on these matters we possess. The 

 following are amongst the principal and essential 

 points of a race-horse, pointed out by that writer 

 in the second volume of his Treatise. 



*' His head should be small and lean ; his ears 

 small and picked ; his eyes brilliantly large ; his 



forehead broad and flat His throat should be 



clean, and fine from the butt of the ear down to its 

 centre, with a good wide space between the jaw 



bones, which latter should be thin The 



neck should be moderate in length. I prefer its 

 being wide ; I mean its width should be formed by 

 the substance of muscles which pass along each 

 side of the top part of it ; from the withers to the 

 head it may gradually rise a little in its centre, 

 but by no means to any extreme, as I have a great 

 aversion to a high crested race-horse. Indeed, I 

 would prefer that his neck should be as I have des- 

 cribed his face, rather of the ewe or deerlike shape, 

 (this we consider a peculiarly happy expression) 

 than that it should be loaded on top, which I will 

 presently explain. As to the lower part of the 

 neck, I have no very particular remarks to make, 

 further than that the trachea or windpipe should 

 be spacious, and loosely attached to the neck on its 

 way to the lungs. The withers may be moderately 

 high, and, if the reader like, they may be also 



* Darvill's Treatise on the Care, Treatment and Training of the 

 English Race-horse, 2 vols. London, 1834. 



