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ATTITUDES OF THE HORSE. 



fore leg is advanced more than its fellow, and when it is 

 vertical, the animal will be somewhat over on the other fore 

 leg {see PI. 15). 



French writers consider that when a horse stands with 

 the weight properly distributed on all his limbs, a line 

 dropped from each point of his buttock will coincide with the 

 posterior edge of his hind leg, from the point of the hock to 

 the fetlock ; and that thie direction of the front legs will be 

 vertical, as in Fig. 34, which I have taken from MM. Goubaux 



Fig. 34. — Le Placer. 



and Barrier's L' Extdriettr dii Chevai. It may be possible to 

 make a horse assume this attitude (Fr. le placer) ; but I must 

 say I have never seen a horse adopt it. Fig. 35 is the near- 

 est approach in a well-bred horse to this position that I have 

 been able to get in a photograph, of which this illustration 

 is an exact copy. 



In the front viezv of the horse — when he is standing in an 

 unconstrained position, with his feet equally advanced and a 

 little distance apart — the forearms will slightly converge, and 



