78 LESSONS IN HORSE JUDGING. 



yieldlon is very limited, not on account of the limb 

 come so formed as to preclude it, but the animal 



In c seldom occasion to lift his feet, on account of 

 they rnearly always on level unbroken ground, that 



67.- and conservation of energy alike tend to close 

 genei action. With horses used for speed and power, 

 whath, as we have seen, includes most horses having 

 thego over mixed ground, higher action becomes 

 loibitual, and in going fast on uneven ground they 

 fnust habitually lift their feet well, and keep thom 

 'well in advance of the body, or they must stumble 

 i.xnd fall. Draught horses too go over all kinds of 

 ground, and get into the habit of lifting their feet 

 well from the ground, but in their case slower speed 

 gives them time to rectify a false step that would 

 bring the subject of quicker movement to the ground. 

 Then their limbs are placed more under the body 

 and, being shorter, the action takes place under the 

 body and not in front of it. 



THE TRUNK. 



69. — We must now pass in review the trunk 

 of the horse, by which we mean the ' chest' and 

 ' belly.' 



70. — The chest, as has been before observed, is 

 cone-shaped, having the apex of the cone pointing 

 forward and its base backwards. This cone shape 

 is very effectually hidden from our view in the liv- 

 ing horse by those large muscular and bony masses, 

 the shoulders, being placed by the side of the apex of 



