HORSES: THEIR POINTS AND MANAGEMENT 



The Knees. — Clean, covered by thin skin ; short, broad, 

 and squarely built. 



Cannons. — Short ; should girth well, eleven inches below 

 knee, but frequently a trifle more or less. Skin, bone and 

 tendons are all that should be felt, or seen and felt about the 

 cannon (metacarpus). Judges will have the Suffolk "clean," 

 i.e., no useless tissue between skin and bone — in the legs 

 Width, depth and thickness of the cannon are essential points 

 of beauty. 



Strong Fetlocks, broad and square pasterns, with a 

 moderate degree of " slope," and sound, well directed, propor- 

 tionately sized feet, constitutes a necessary quality in the 

 regions of the pasterns and fetlocks. 



If a Suffolk — in fact, any horse for that matter — has not 

 sound and well developed legs and feet, he is not likely to fetch 

 a good price if offered for sale. 



The Hoof should have an angle of about forty-five 

 degrees ; be hard, well open at heels, and neither shelly nor 

 brittle. When the horse moves, the feet should be advanced 

 in a straight line with the body, turning neither " in nor out." 



Contraction at the heels is a decided fault. The frogs should 

 be well developed, and rest on the ground. Soles, concave ; 

 flat soles being faulty. 



The diseases that concern the Suffolk buyer and breeder, 

 affecting the forehmb, are chiefly as follows : — Sphnt, ringbone, 

 sidebone, sandcrack, false-quarter, contracted heels, brittle 

 feet, flat feet, and feet inchned to thrush, canker, etc. The 

 worst of these are ringbone, sidebone, and sandcrack, and 



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