18 THE HORSE. 



be attended to ; and the best method of becoming ac- 

 quamted with its locality is to open the skull of a dead 

 horse, and then examine the points at which the brain 

 can approach the surface. In this way they will be 

 prevented from mistaking a projection of bone for a 

 prominent brain, and they will not be likely to look for 

 a protuberance of brain where no brain should exist. 



THE NECK. 



In all horses, the neck should be fine and arched- 

 looking where it joins the head. Fineness in this lo- 

 cality adds greatly to the beauty of the horse, and 

 generally speaks well for the purity of his breeding. 

 The setting-on of the head and neck should be such as 

 to cause the nose to project a little forward, otherwise 

 the head will look no better than it would if it were 

 nailed across the stump of a tree. Still the nose must 

 not be pushed so far forward as to constitute a star- 

 gazer, as the horse would then be both unsafe and un- 

 manageable. A star-gazing horse may run where he 

 pleases with his rider, because the bit will slip up into y 

 the angles of his mouth, in place of keeping a solict^\A' 

 and safe purchase on the lower jaw ; ia laxrt, the ana- 

 tomical relations between his head and neck are such, 

 that his chin can never be drawn in properly towards 

 his counter. 



jt In place of being an objection, it is rather an ad- 

 vantage, that the windpipe should be large, and rather 



