276 THE HORSE IN AMERICA 



main have been satisfactory. No one of them, 

 however, was my ideal. 



In a general way, all horses should have cer- 

 tain points. Therefore general rules apply in all 

 the types, from the Pony to the Percheron. Every 

 horse should have (1) a bony head and small 

 ears; (2) medium-sized eyes, neither protruding 

 nor sunken, and without an excess of white in the 

 pupil; (3) the forehead should be broad; (4) the 

 face should be straight and neither concave nor 

 convex; (5) the neck should be small and lean, its 

 length regulated by the size of the head and the 

 weight of the shoulders, the head being so joined 

 to the neck that the neck seems to control the 

 head instead of the reverse; (6) the shoulders 

 should be oblique or sloping; (7) the back should 

 be short; (8) the ribs should be well rounded, 

 definitely separated and full of length; (9) the 

 legs should be flat and lean, with knees wide 

 from side to side and flat in front, the upper bone 

 of the leg being long and muscular in proportion 

 to the lower or the common bone; (10) the feet 

 should be moderately large; (11) the pasterns 

 should be long rather than short, but, better still, 



