TYPE IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS l6l 



Hind quarters. Perfect Score 



Hips, smooth, wide, level, 2 



Croup, long, wide, muscula., 2 



Tail, attached high, well carried, I 



Thighs, long, muscular, spread, open angled, 2 

 Quarters, heavily muscled, deep, 2 



Gaskin or lower thighs, long, wide, muscular, 2 

 Hocks, clearly defined, wide, straight, 5 



Cannon,^ short, wide; sinews, large, set back, 2 

 Fetlocks, wide, straight, I 



Pasterns, strong, sloping, 2 



Feet, medium, even size, straight, horn dense, 

 frog large, elastic, bars strong, sole concave, 

 heel wide, high, 4 



Legs, viewed from behind, a perpendicular 

 line from the point of the buttock should fall 

 upon the center of the hock, cannon, pastern 

 and foot. From the side a perpendicular line 

 from the hip joint should fall upon the center 

 of the foot and divide the gaskin in the middle 

 and a perpendicular line from the point of the 

 buttock should run parallel with the line of the 

 cannon, 4 



Iction. 



Walk, elastic, quick, balanced, 5 



Trot, rapid, straight, regular, high, 15 



Total 100 



Type in general purpose horses. Since general pur- 

 pose horses have been variously bred and usually in a sort 

 of aimless way, that is without any very distinctly defined 

 purpose in view, it could not be otherwise than that the 

 horses of this class should vary greatly. Some will be so 

 heavy as to constitute what may be termed light draught 

 horses and some so light as to carry no more weight than 



