THPJ FORELEG AND SHOULDER. 79 



The Point of the Elbow is sometimes the seat 

 of a large and ugly tumour, produced by the 

 heel of the shoe bruising it, when the horse is 

 lying with the leg bent under him. 



I never saw a case where it interfered with 

 the horse's action ; and unless it does so, it is 

 merely a blemish, not an unsoundness. 



The Front of the Knee is invariably scrutinized 

 with the utmost severity by every purchaser at 

 all acquainted with horses. If the hair be rubbed 

 off, it is a symptom, that the horse has at some 

 time fallen, and injured himself: and it is a po- 

 pular, though erroneous opinion, that if he has 

 once come down, he will be ever after very apt 

 to do so again. This error has had its origin 

 in, and is perpetuated by, the fact, that some 

 horses come down very frequently. But they 

 do so, because they are not well formed for the 

 saddle ; having either a low forehand, or a heavy 

 head, or an upright shoulder, or what is a natural 

 consequence of these faults, they lean so much over 

 their forelegs, as to be very easily thrown on their 

 knees. In a horse that is known to fall often, some, 

 or all of these defects will be found in his conform- 

 ation, but there is nothing in the nature of the 

 injury of the skin, that can at all make him 



