lCj8 ON THE HACKNEY AND HUNTEK. 



comes more free and clear, as their aclion in- 

 creafes. 



Ewe j or deer-necked Horfes, have fre- 

 quently fine moulders, and are fad goers ; and 

 when the neck does not belly out too much, 

 and the head is well fet on, and the jaw-bones 

 wide, they may be made to ride light in hand, 

 and handfomely ; but if they are much cock- 

 throppled, and the head is at the fame time fet 

 on abruptly, they muft always bear heavy on 

 the hand. In this cafe, art affords no remedy ; 

 and it is only tormenting the horfe fruitlefsly, 

 to attempt it: when you bear, with great force, 

 upon the martingale, you choke him. Let it 

 be obferved, that the need of a martingale, de- 

 tracts confiderably from the worth of a horfe. 

 I mould conceive, at leaft, five pounds in 

 twenty. There is a defective form, which I 

 have often feen, but cannot well defcribe, called 

 by the French, a falfe, or hatchet neck ; it is 

 thin, and ftraight along the throat, having a 

 cavity between the top of the fhoulder and the 

 withers. Thin, loofe, and fwivel-necked horfes, 

 carry their heads up in the air, particularly if 

 (hort-headed, or tender -mouthed. When a 

 martingale is ufed to palliate a natural defect, 



the bits, and curb, ought ever to be of the 

 mildeft. Long, rain-bow necks, are more for 



beauty, and ornament, than real fervice. They 



feldom belong to capital goers. It is eafy to 



conceive, 



