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be deep-chested rather than broad, because if he is 

 very broad in the chest he will never be fast, though 

 he may be able to stay. His fore-legs should be well 

 set on, clean, bony, flat, and free from splints and 

 side-bones, while they should not be too long from 

 the knees to the pasterns. The knees should be flat 

 and fairly large, while the pasterns should be moder- 

 ately long and elastic, to insure easy springing action. 

 His feet should be well spread and proportionate, well 

 hollowed beneath, and the hoofs tough, sound, and 

 durable. The hind-legs should be well united to the 

 quarters, flat, clean, and hard as whalebone, with 

 strong, symmetrical hocks, and free from curbs and 

 spavins. The forelock, mane, and tail should be soft, 

 silky, and fine, while the tips at the fetlocks should be 

 so delicate as almost to be imperceptible. Curls and 

 waves in the hair are generally suggestive of under- 

 breeding. 



No objection should be made to the colour of a 

 colt if he can gallop fast enough and stay the required 

 distance, but a racehorse always looks more furnished 

 with a good blaze of white between the eyes, while a 

 white stocking or two generally lend style to his 

 appearance ; but cJiacun a son goitt. 



THE colt's management. 



The thoroughbred colt from his sensitive nervous 

 temperament requires extremely careful and judicious 

 treatment in the way of food, exercise, and training. 

 He can scarcely be given too generous a diet of com- 



