200 ON THE HACKNEY AND HUNTER. 



liquely placed, there can be no doubt but fuch 

 Horfes will carry greater weight, in proportion, 

 and with equal fpeed. They are alio, in ge- 

 neral, eafy goers. The famous Mother Nee- 

 fom, according to Bracken's account, was fo 

 (haped ; and I have known fome fuch, with ca- 

 pital action: but this is rare, fuch forms being, 

 in general, flraight-mouldered, and wide-cheft- 

 ed, and by no means diflinguifhed for fpeed. 



The extreme obliquity, or ftant of the moul- 

 der, it mult be obferved, is requifite only for 

 the running-horfe, and even amongft them, it 

 is rare, extent of moulder, providing it be flat 

 and deep, or wide, always conferring propor- 

 tional powers of progreflion. The flraight 

 heavy-fnouldered horfe, is evidently, unfit for 

 any purpofe, but flow draft; both the weight, 

 fimpiy confidered, and its mal-pofition, imped- 

 ing progreifion. This accounts for well-fhaped 

 Horfes, being more capable of high weights, 

 than others with much greater (hew of fub- 

 ftance. 



A high and well-placed (boulder, is accom- 

 panied with all forts of advantages, of which it 

 is a very eminent one, that a proper place 

 is thereby fecured for the faddle, without the 

 ufe of a crupper, the need of which, as well as 

 of a martingale, decreafes the value of a horfe. 

 I have faid that the (houlder-blades ought to 

 reach up to the top of the withers, diminishing 



gradually, 



