74 LESSONS IN HORSE JUDGING. 



fore limb must be placed bodily well forward, and 

 have its long axis well in advance at its base. 

 The horse is then said ' to cover plenty of ground.' 

 This necessitates, as we have seen, plenty of obli- 

 quity of the shoulder blade, or in other words, the 

 top of the blade must be well back and the shoulder 

 point well forward. In heav}^ draught, the centre 

 of gravity must be thrown well in front of the fore 

 limbs, and kept in this relation to the rest of the 

 bod}^ and the long axis of the limb throughout 

 looks downwards and forwards, and its extension 

 forward at the base never gets beyond the perpen- 

 dicular. 



