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arrival at the winning post : trainers, with this object, 

 take the greatest pains to select a horse with a long neck 

 and to develop this portion so far as may be. 



It is in the violent ecart which is produced in the 

 scapulo-humeral articulation, to which I have just given 

 its greatest development both as to flexion and extension, 

 that full justice can be rendered to the play of the large 

 rounded head of the humerus under the superficial and 

 little extended glenoid cavity of the scapulum. 



The figures I have just given, were taken upon the 

 left fore-limb ; having recommenced, eight days later, on 

 the anterior off-side member, the fresh observations con- 

 firmed the results of the experiment I have just described. 

 Although very easy to make, I must none the less warn 

 the reader that certain preliminary precautions are neces- 



."■ G^ricaulf 



Figs. 16 and 17. 



sary. Preference in the selection of an assistant should be 

 given to a powerful man. 



It is very easy to find an immediate application of the 

 knowledge acquired by the experiment described above. 

 The beautiful canvas of Gericault, exhibited in the 



