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well carried ears, lean and wide jaw. His neck may look 

 somewhat coarse to persons who are accustomed to ride 

 only geldings and mares ; but in reality it is comparatively 

 light for a stallion. The head is well set-on to the neck, 

 and is carried bravely. His shoulders are well sloped, 

 although they and his withers often err, from a galloping 

 and jumping point of view, on the side of thickness, which 

 is due to the large size of the muscles that enable his 



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Fig. 597. — Mr. Dignum's Arab pony, Magistrate. 



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fore -hand to bear weight. The common statement, 

 that Arabs have bad shoulders, has evidently been made 

 by persons who do not know that the kind of shoulders 

 which might be very good in one class of riding horse, 

 might be equally bad in another variety of saddle animal. 

 He has capital fore legs, and his strong and sloping 

 pasterns (Fig. 356) are particularly well adapted for fast 

 work on hard ground. His loins are flat, broad and 

 powerful. For roundness of barrel and length of back 



