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mencement from the lower part of the quarter 

 to its insertion into the posterior or projecting 

 point of the hock — the os calcis. The hock 

 should he broad and wide, with a clean, lean ap- 

 pearance, and those soft parts, which are occa- 

 sionally the seat of thorough-pins and bog spa- 

 vins, in a sound well-formed hock, should appear 

 more as cavities than as having the above-men- 

 tioned projections, and which are sometimes the 

 cause of lameness. The hind leg, like the fore 

 one, should be short, broad, flat, and straight, 

 the trifling angle formed by the hock should, toge- 

 ther with the moderate obliquity of the pastern, 

 bring the extremity of the toe nearly under the 

 stifle-joint. 



I now conclude my remarks on the formation 

 or shape and make of the race horse; how far 

 my description of the animal may meet the appro- 

 bation of my readers is another matter. I have 

 merely given my opinion as far as my own prac- 

 tical observation authorizes me, in the pointing 

 out of such parts of the horse as require to be of 

 capacious dimensions, and such other parts as 

 require to be of substance and length ; the former 

 giving strength to his constitution, and the latter 



