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THE FAMILY HOKSE. 



size and good frogs and broad heels. * No frog, no foot ; no foot, 

 no horse.' The pasterns should be short, with round, smooth 

 joints, good-size cannon bone, also short, with clean-cut ligaments 

 and strong tendons, good-sized knee, and hocks clean and bony, 

 long forearm, and from point of hip to hock ; stifles wide apart ; 

 broad and muscular hips, a well-muscled and slightly -arched loin, 

 short back, sound barrel, deep girth and oblique shoulders, a broad 

 chest and nicely arched neck, fine at the throat-latch, and a head of 

 the good old Morgan type. Such a horse is a model, with docile and 

 tractable temperament, resolution, power of endurance, and pleas- 



Fig. 15.— STRAIGHT HOOF. 



Fig. 16.— KNEE-SPRUNG. 



ing appearance. It has a prominent eye, wide forehead, broad 

 jowls, fine muzzle, and nicely-shaped ears." 



Feet and Legs.— But the points in a horse upon which every- 

 thing else literally rests, are good feet and legs. Without them, the 

 best breeding, the most perfectly formed head and body, are of no 

 avail. The illustrations, figs. 11 to 23, after drawings by H. M. Hari- 

 mann, show the right and wrong kinds of legs and feet. Figure 11 

 shows the horse from a side view. The legs and body of a horse of 

 average normal shape just fill a square, formed by a horizontal line 

 drawn from the top of the wethers, and another at the bottom of 

 the feet, and vertical lines from the front and rear. If this square 



