Cut 5 shows I'liur ? 

 we would call poifoct. 



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I liiiul ligs from a sitic view, none of whicli 



Fig. 10. 



Fig. 13. 



Fig. 11. Fig. le. 



Cut No. 5. 

 SIDE VIEW OF THE HIND QUARTERS AND HIND LEGS. 



Fig. 10 shows an unbalanced conformation; the legs are too far back 

 of the body, which makes an extra strain on the back, and the hind 

 legs are dragged after the horse, rather than serving as propellers. Fig. 

 II is nearly as bad a conformation as the former (Fig. 10), and stands 

 too straight on his pasterns. He will not drag his hind legs cjuite as 

 much as the other, but he will almost drive his hind feet into the ground 

 in trotting, which gives a terrible jar to the bones of the legs. Fig. 12 

 is a case where the legs are well under the body, but so straight through- 

 out that the m.ovcment can neither be easy or springy. Fig 13 is the 

 best poise of the hind legs for the support of the body, but they are 

 also too straight to wear well or glide over the surface smoothly. The 

 pasterns in all, are too straight even if the legs were properly joined to 

 the bodv. 



