ANGLO-FRENCH HORSEMANSHIP 



divided into 25 or 30 degrees between the upper 

 bone and a horizontal line drawn through the 

 joint and 45 to 60 degrees below that line. 



Horses with a horizontal croup, say, one at 

 an angle of 20 degrees, are as a rule bad weight 

 carriers and poor jumpers. A horse with 

 exceptionally good shoulders and a level back, 

 however, usually has a croup of this formation, 

 as if the shoulder is, say, at an angle of 

 45 degrees, the angle formed by the croup 

 must be correspondingly small to prevent the 

 croup being higher than the withers. This 

 perhaps is why one seldom finds a good hunter 

 with a shoulder at a smaller angle than 

 55 degrees, which enables the croup to form an 

 angle of 30 degrees. 



The stifle should be low, well developed, 

 and turn slightly outwards, and when the horse 

 is moving should be lifted vigorously. 



The hocks viewed from behind should have 

 broad clean caps ; viewed from the side they 

 should be well let down, and the inner line, if 

 continued, should strike about the centre of the 

 back of the fetlock joint — if it come out much 

 above, the horse will generally be found to be 

 tied in below the hock, and consequently weak. 

 Horses with overstraight hocks are, as a rule, 

 pullers, although they are generally fast gal- 



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