POINTS OF THE HORSE. II7 



shoe hollow and pretty high. The points of 

 beauty are a small dry head, with scarcely 

 anything but mere skin on its bones; ears 

 short and mobile, large eyes, wide nostrils, 

 neck erect, mane thick, tail even fuller, hoofs 

 set on firm and round. In action, let him be 

 high-spirited, swift-footed, quivering-limbed 

 (a proof of courage), and willing to be 

 put to speed from a dead halt and to stop in 

 the midst of a fast dash without making 

 trouble. The principal colours are chestnut, 

 golden, albino, bay, brown, fawn, yellowish^ 

 checkered, dead white, piebald, glistening 

 white, black, dark. Of less value and of 

 various degrees of beauty, black mixed with 

 albino or chestnut, gray with any other colour 

 you like; dappled, spotted, mouse-colour, or 

 even duskier. But in the case of stallions, 

 let us pick out a single distinct colour; others 

 are to be disdained unless great merit in 

 other ways makes up for defect in colour. 

 The same points must be considered in 

 brood mares; especially they should have 

 long large barrels and bodies. 



