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muscles should be lengthy, and their divisions 

 distinctly to be observed. 



The fore-arm should be broad and long, and 

 most particularly well furnished with muscles on 

 its top parts, inside as well as out; I mean by this, 

 that the muscles on the top and inside of the arm 

 should here be so large as to leave but a moderate 

 space between the fore-legs, immediately under 

 the chest; and which muscles should appear, as 

 those in front of the chest, distinctly divided. 

 The posterior part of the top of the arm is called 

 the " elbow :" this should appear (the horse in 

 condition) somewhat on a level with the body ; if it 

 at all deviates from this appearance, I would pre- 

 fer its standing in, to that of its standing unpro- 

 portionably out. The knee-joint should be large, 

 broad, and flat in front ; generally speaking, the 

 larger and broader all joints are in reason the 

 better and stronger they are; and the longer, 

 coarser, and rougher their projecting points or 

 processes are, the greater and more secure will be 

 the lever for the muscles or tendons to act upon, 

 provided such projecting parts or joints (as the 

 hocks and pasterns) do not amount to disease, as 

 that of producing spavins and ringbones. The leg. 



