SELECTING A MOUNT. 



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well-developed skull can bruise or hamper the healthy 

 brain which it has been created to protect. I cannot 

 believe in the excellence of short, straight hoofs, with 



A NATURAL AND AN UPRIGHT PASTERN. 



narrow heels, nor can I forego my opinion, although once 

 or twice I have had to fight for it, that the best bred and 

 safest horses have their feet standing close together, with 

 the toes pointing forwards^ in preference to a tendency to 



HOOFS. 



point either outwardly or in. The leg should be straight 

 and firm, the knee-joint flat and broad, the shin hard, the 

 forearm lengthy, and the limbs large and well-developed 



