78 LESSONS IN HORSE JUDGING. 



gram of the Clydesdale horse, it will be seen that 

 the two axes are at right angles. I have chosen 

 the three from that most excellent work on the 

 horse by Mr. Walsh (Stonehenge). In the great- 

 est speed the long axes of the body is of necessity 

 tilted downwards and forwards. In the heaviest 

 draught the weight has to be thrown forwards 

 into the collar, and the long axis of the body also 

 thrown shghtly downwards and forwards; but 

 very much less so than in the former case. 

 Where high 'park' action takes place, the long 

 axis of the body must be upwards and forwards. 

 These things being so, it foUows that for either 

 speed or action, or both, the fore Hmb must be 

 placed bodily well forward, and have its long axis 

 well in advance at its base. The horse is then 

 said *to cover plenty of ground.' This necessi- 

 tates, as we have seen, plenty of obhquity of the 

 shoulder blade, or in other words, the top of the 

 blade must be well back and the shoulder point 

 well forward. In heavy draught, the centre of 

 gravity must be thrown well in front of the fore 

 limbs, and kept in this relation to the rest of the 

 body, and the long axis of the limb throughout 

 looks downwards and forwards, and its extension 

 forward at the base never gets beyond the per- 

 pendicular. 



