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Clamberers are slow and, from the great waste of 

 muscular energy, are but poor workers; they are in this 

 respect, however, Sound. 



HIGH HIPS. 



High hips are very unsightly; they owe their promi- 

 nence to narrowness of the loins, and are therefore weak; 

 liigh-liip})ed horses are long in the waist, that is, they 

 are too lengthy from the hip to the last rib; they are 

 inclined to be washy, and purge when exercised or sharply 

 worked, and are frequently hot and colicky in temper. 



All large-hipped horses are good leapers, on account of 

 the great leverage provided by their wide hips, and are, 

 in this res2)ect, Sound. 



Where the loins are good, not flat sided, and ^^well 

 ribbed home," the wider the hips the greater the horse's 

 power; in such case the angularity is softened and the 

 horse is a very superior one for work. 



NARROW LOINS. 



Narrow and weak loins are generally found with narrow 

 hips, the defectiveness in this case being even worse than 

 in that of high hips; but as the two defects generally go 

 together, I refer to the article on " High Hi^os." Nar- 

 row-loined horses are Sound. 



LONG WAIST. 



Long waist is a term applied to horses that are very 

 lengthy between the last rib and the haunch-bone: such 

 horses are weakly, have, generally, small loms, but are, 

 so far, Sound. 



See the preceding two articles. 



