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CHAP. IV. 



ON TBE LEGS. 



THE leg of the horse Is now to be consider- 

 ed ; and, next to the foot, its exertions are the 

 greatest •, therefore it must be particularly at- 

 tended to. A horse*s leg should have strength 

 proportioned to his body, that is to say, he 

 should have a great deal of bone from the 

 knee doM^nv^^ard ; and that part of the leg 

 which is called the arm, viz. from the knee 

 upwards, should be very strong and muscular.. 

 The lower part of the leg should be free from 

 flesh at the fetlocks and pasterns, and clean 

 and hard down to the hoof ; for if the legs be 

 too fleshy, they will, after severe exercise, puff 

 and swell, and this, in a short time, will oc- 

 casion cracked and broken heels, if they are not 

 kept clean by being washed at least twice a day, 

 and if care be not taken that they do not stand 

 in their own dung v/ater. The pastern ought not 



