SOUND AND UNSOUND HORSES 



square in outline, i.e., broad, flat, 

 and clean. 



Cannons (12) short, broad and cylin- 

 drical, and when the hand is run down 

 this region, nothing but skin, bone 

 and tendons should be felt ; in other 

 words, the animal should be " clean- 

 legged," with a superabundance of 

 soft silky hair, hiding, in part, the 

 hoof. Pasterns (13) strong, wide 

 and clean. As to the feet (14) these 

 must be free from flatness, but large and 

 full, well open at the heels, the sole being 

 sound and concave, with a plump foot- 

 pad (frog). 



Pasterns broad, thick, neither too 

 long nor too short, nor yet upright, or 

 too oblique. An angle of moderate 

 slope is necessary in a typical Shire. 



Too much attention cannot be paid 

 to the feet of horses when selecting, 

 more especially so in the case of a heavy 

 draught horse. 



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