THE FORE LIMBS. ' 81 



order to detect abuse of the rasp, horse owners shie is 

 forbid the smith to put grease upon the hoof, a upper 

 gloss over the injury he has inflicted with thmd the 

 Grease or hoof ointment may be put on aft^ework 

 inspection has been made of the parts. lungs. 



(jS. — The fore limbs should be set on, so must 

 when the horse is standing the limb may neaiuch 

 be turned in nor out. The breadth of the shouhdliQ 

 as seen from the front will vary according to thcds 

 muscularity, but much more according to theis 

 relative position with the trunk. This depends" 

 upon the chest being cone-shaped. The chest of thei 

 horse is somewhat cone-shaped with the apex 

 of the cone pointing forwards, and the base pointing 

 backwards. It is evident that the further the 

 shoulders are from the point of the cone the further 

 will they be apart from each other. The fore legs 

 of the horse are sometimes said to appear ' to come 

 out of one hole.' They may, as we have seen, be 

 quite as muscular as shoulders set wider apart. 

 Width of shoulders is desirable for collar work, so 

 that the fore legs have need of being placed wider 

 apart. We shall say little of ' action' because that 

 is involved in the more general consideration of the 

 limbs ; but we must remark that when the foot is 

 lifted in flexion, the lower part of the limb should be 

 also straight with the long axis of the body when 

 viewed either from the front or rear. The foot 

 turned out when lifted and flexed is said ' to dish.' 



The fore limb of the racer does not necessitate 

 close action, or as it is termed ' daisy cutting' action. 



