ANGLO-FRENCH HORSEMANSHIP 



show no sign of wiring in, and the size of the 

 feet should be in proportion to the size of the 

 bone of the leg and pastern. 



The tendons of the legs should be clean and 

 large, and stand well out from the bone, which 

 should be flat, i.e., looking wide from the side, 

 and somewhat narrow from the front. 



The knees and hocks should also be broad 

 and deep, and the pasterns of the forelegs of 

 moderate length and of a nice slope, the distance 

 from knee to fetlock being short. The hind 

 pasterns should not be long and sloping, but on 

 the contrary rather short and strong. 



Being satisfied with the feet and legs, let us 

 have a look at his body : prefer nice sloping, 

 muscular shoulders, running well into the back, 

 long from the withers to the point, and not 

 loaded nor thick at either end. As the horse 

 walks past you the point of the shoulder should 

 not appear to stick out unduly ; if it does the 

 horse will be cramped and stilted in his action 

 and not worth buying for a hunter. We must 

 not be content with examining only the slope of 

 the shoulder ; it is of great importance that the 

 humerus, i.e., the bone between the point of the 

 shoulder and the elbow, should be only mode- 

 rately oblique, the elbow low and free of the 

 horse's side, and the forelegs placed well 



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