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in the cart-horse ; we should look for greater length from 



stifle to hock, in the first two, than in the last named. I 



would also expect in them a shorter thigh and a shorter 



cannon-bone. I may mention that I am confirmed in this 



opinion by the practical experience of Mr. Tom Jennings, 



junr., the well-known trainer, who once remarked to me that 



he always regarded as a good point in a race-horse, the fact 



of its stifle being set high up in its flank — i.e., its having a 



short thigh bone, and consequently being long from its stifle 



to its hock. 



In the remainder of the body we might, possibly, also 



find a series of inverse proportions as follows : — Head, short ; 

 neck, long ; back and loins, short ; croup, long ; bones of the 

 tail, short. 



Although I am well aware that the proportions of the 

 skeleton do not rigidly follow any strict mathematical rule ; 

 still I am strongly of opinion, from close study of the horse, 

 that in the large majority of cases the foregoing deductions 

 will be found to be correct. 



Differences of Conformation between the Two 

 Sexes. ^ — As a rule, the mare, as compared to the horse, has 

 a lighter neck, a broader pelvis, and is higher behind and 

 slacker in the loins than he is. 



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