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its descendants, the defects inherent in its own slim and 

 desultory conformation. 



Baucher believes the race-horse to be specially bred 

 for the purpose of satisfying the public curiosity, with the 

 solitary good quality of being able to cover a league in 

 from four to six minutes, and as early as 1833 ne 

 registered a vow never to permit horses to gallop, the 

 physical construction of which would incapacitate them 

 from rendering useful town work a few days after a race. 

 " It would be highly advantageous," he would say, "to 

 replace these gallopers, incapable of any useful work, by 

 saddle or carriage horses, light and well-proportioned in 

 the formation ; the ones being harnessed and the others 

 being ridden would develop all the extension of which 

 they were capable, at a trotting gait." 



The horses of warm lands are courageous, lively, 

 restless and violent, capable of enduring the greatest 

 fatigue, and usually prove long-lived. Their development 

 is slower than that of the northern horses ; but if the 

 horses of the northern lands are larger and breed with 

 greater promptitude, they are also indolent, cold, timid, 

 restive, unintelligent, incapable of prolonged exercise, and 

 worn out at an early age. 



Saddle-horses and hunters can no more be light with- 

 out being thin than can the race-horse, the rays of which 

 can be elongated and the dryness of the muscles, capable 

 of violent efforts, indicated. 



The draught-horse should be vigorously built, with 

 big members, To be handsome it should be the imper- 

 sonation of strength without heaviness or pufriness. 



I have endeavoured to enumerate the proportions 

 which establish the most harmonious correspondence, 

 frequently found in horses ; with their aid, the artist can 

 construct a type appropriate to the model he desires to 

 reproduce. 



I have already observed that the best situation in 

 which to place a horse, for the purpose of measurement, 

 is to pose it in such a manner that the direction of the 

 head be evidently parallel to the shoulder, a pose which 

 the animal assumes in numerous photographs. 



It will then be ascertained that the upper portion of 

 the nostril touches the prolongation of the horizontal of 



