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consequence of the fullness or substance of those 

 muscles covering the breast, which muscles should 

 be lengthy and their divisions distinctly to be ob- 

 served. The fore-arm should be broad and long, 

 and most particularly well furnished with muscles 

 on its top parts, inside as well as out ; I mean by 

 this, that the muscles on the top and inside of the 

 arm should here be so large as to leave but a mode- 

 rate space between the fore -legs immediately under 

 the chest, and which muscles should appear, as 

 those in front of the chest, distinctly divided. The 

 posterior part of the top of the arm is called the 

 * elbow ;' this should appear (the horse in condition) 

 somewhat on a level with the body ; if it at all 

 elevates from this appearance, I would prefer its 

 standing in, to that of its standing unproportio- 

 nally out. The knee-joint should be large, broad, 

 and flat in front. Generally speaking, the larger 

 and broader all joints are in reason, the better and 

 stronger they are ; and the longer, coarser, and 

 rougher their projecting points or processes are, 

 the greater and more secure will be the lever for 

 the muscles or tendons to act upon, provided such 

 projecting parts or joints (as the hocks and pas- 

 terns) do not amount to disease, as that of produc- 

 ing spavins and ring bones. The legs from the 

 knee to the fetlock cannot well be too short, 

 neither can they well be too broad or too flat, nor 

 their flexer tendon scarcely be too large or ap- 



