X A NEW ILLUSTRATION. 



both should be. Three of the feet ai'e still higher from the ground, 

 and the back is very little above the higher horizontal line. The 

 right fore knee is a little further forward, and that foot is not so 

 high. The hind feet have been carried further forward, one in front 

 of the other, and the right stifle is close to the abdomen. 



Number four gives another new illustration, and would be thought 

 highly absurd if the proof of its accuracy was not so emphatic. The 

 right hind foot has struck the ground, the toe being nine inches in 

 front of the line between the spaces eight and nine, eighty-five inches 

 from where the fore foot was placed, and, consequently, showing this 

 much of a flight through the air when all the feet were ofi" the ground. 

 The other hind foot is fifteen inches above the surface of the track, 

 and in advance of the one which is on the ground, the right fore leg, 

 from the knee down, being nearly vertical, the arm horizontal, while 

 the other fore leg is much bent at knee and pastern, so that the sole 

 of the foot is uppermost and level. Thus the 



FIRST CONTACT 



After the body is hurled through the air, is on one hind foot, and all 

 our ideas of concussion and impinging force proven to be incorrect. 

 This hind foot is thrust so far forward that the vertical line which 

 strikes the ankle also strikes the cantle of the saddle, the foot being 

 placed immediately under the rider, without much inclination of the 

 pastern. This thrusting of the feet so far forward is to sustain the 

 equilibrium as much as possible, and to give the greatest contractive 

 force of the muscles. 



In the next picture, number five, the same hind foot is on the 



