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bay, brown, chestnut, and occasionally black or gray. They 

 possess good action and great intelligence. 



431. The Thoroughbred. The next breed to become well estab- 

 ished was the Thoroughbred, or the running horse. This breed 

 is native to England and is an offspring of the Arabian horse, 

 modified in part by the demand of the English people for a race 



FIG. 165. The points in judging a horse 



i, mouth ; 2, nostril ; 3, chin ; 4, nose ; 5, face ; 6, forehead ; 7, eye ; 8, ear ; 9, lower 

 jaw; 10, throatlatch; n, windpipe; 12, crest; 13, withers; 14, shoulder; 15, breast; 

 16, arm; 17, elbow; 18, forearm; 19, knee; 20, cannon ; 21, fetlock joint ; 22, pastern ; 

 23, foot ; 24, fore flank ; 25, heart girth ; 26, coupling ; 27, back ; 28, loin ; 29, rear flank ; 

 30, belly ; 31, hip ; 32, croup ; 33, tail ; 34, buttocks ; 35, quarters ; 36, thigh ; 37, stifle ; 

 38, gaskin, or lower thigh ; 39, hock. (Photograph from Purdue University) 



horse. It ranges in height from 14.2 to 16.2 hands, and weighs 

 from 900 to 1 100 pounds. The colors are bay, brown, chestnut, 

 with a considerable number of blacks and grays. It possesses 

 great running speed and is intelligent, but is very mettle- 

 some and sometimes difficult to manage. This breed has contrib- 

 uted to the improvement of our present-day horses, notably 



