CHAPTER I. 



ON THE FORMATION OF THE RACE HORSE. 



Some authors have been of opinion that the just 

 proportions of a horse may be ascertained by 

 measurements, as that of multiplying and dividing 

 of different parts ; how far such measurements may 

 be correct I cannot pretend to say. The method 

 I shall take of describing the shape and make of the 

 animal is from practical observation. Nor is it 

 my intention to explain this matter by a greater 

 variety of anatomical phrases than is absolutely 

 necessary, as this would not perhaps be of much 

 advantage to those of my readers whose principal 

 object is to obtain a knowledge of the shape and 

 make of horses that are intended for the purpose 

 of racing; suffice it therefore to say, that the 

 bones of the horse, like those of almost all other 



