Horse Buying and Horse Trying 1 1 1 



and firmly compressed. A fine, light lip is indica- 

 tive of an active temperament, and affords a measure 

 of the energy of the animal. Horses with short, 

 thick, flabby lips, lying wide apart, are proverbial 

 for sluggishness. The nostrils should be large, 

 so as to allow the air free access to the lungs. There 

 is a direct relation between the development of the 

 nostrils and the capacity of the lungs. Capacious 

 lungs are of no use. if the orifice w^hich supplies 

 them is so contracted that due extension is prevented. 

 Care must be taken not to confound a naturally 

 well-developed nostril with one which appears large 

 because permanently distended by disease of the 

 lungs and air passages. 



" The muzzle should be fine for a good way up, 

 and then enlarge suddenly, that the under jaw may 

 be broad, as w^ell as thick from side to side. The 

 space between the two blades of the under jaw should 

 be broad and deep to freely admit the windpipe and 

 neck, when the head is bent toward the chest. The 

 face, at side view, should be straight, or perhaps 

 dipped between eyes and nose as in the Arab or the 



