176 THE STUD. 



CHAP. VI. 



POINTS IN THE MAKE AKD SHAPE OF THE HORSE, MORE OR LESS 



DESIRABLE. PHYSIOGNOMY. THE NECK. SHOULDERS AND 



WITHERS. LOW IN THE BACK. SHORT BACK RIBS. SMALL 



FEET. GENERAL APPEARANCE AND CONDITION OF THE HORSE. 



Havixg mentioned the chief ordinaiy habits 

 likely to be found in horses offered for sale, we 

 will now look towards such points in shape and 

 make as may influence their utility or pleasantry ; 

 these not dependent on habit, but such as, from 

 natural causes, independent of their own will, 

 temper, or disposition, render them more or less 

 desirable, or are indicative of peculiarities in 

 either of those attributes. 



PHYSIOGNOMY. 



The man who is so much taken up by admiring 

 contemplation of his own face as to afford him no 

 time to contemplate any thing else, may be per- 

 fectly indifferent as to the physiognomy of a 

 horse ; but if inattention to this feature in the 

 animal embraced the possession of a refractory or 

 dangerous one, he might find physiognomy in the 

 horse worthy of notice. 



