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THE FORE LEG. 



able, the position of the fore leg is worthy of 

 attention. It should be placed well forward, and 

 descend perpendicularly to the ground, the toe 

 being nearly in a line with the point of the 

 shoulder. The pasterns should neither be turned 

 in nor out. When they are turned inwards, the 

 horse is in general very liable to cut the fetlock 

 joint by striking the opposite foot against it. 

 The draught horse may be excused, though he 

 leans a little over his fore legs, but the saddle 

 horse will be apt to stumble if he does so. 



The shoulder should, like the hind quarter, be 

 extensive, well covered with muscle, and in the 

 saddle horse, where rapid and extensive action 

 is required, it should slant from the withers to 

 the breast. The neck should join the shoulder 

 in such a manner as to seem to run into it. But 

 the draught horse's shoulder should be, and usually 

 is, more upright, that the collar may sit well upon 

 it. The setting on of the neck is more distinct 

 in the draught than in the saddle horse, the 

 shoulder bone being more upright ; and the mus- 

 cles taking a diflFerent direction make the shoulder 

 swell out abruptly, and form a seat upon which 

 the collar conveniently rests. 



The elbow should be wide from before back- 



