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and is surpassed in weight only by the Shire. He is ex- 

 tremely compactly put together with square, massive ends 

 and a short, wide and deep middle, characters with which 

 there are too frequently correlated a short, thick, heavy- 

 crested neck and short, straight, stubby pasterns. The 

 head is of medium length, broad and deep and strong in 



Fig. 73. — A Clydesdale stallion. 



the jowl, eyes not sufficiently large or prominent and 

 ears set too low sometimes. His short legs are heavily 

 muscled in the forearm and the gaskin, although the bone 

 is often not of the best quality nor the feet as large and 

 round as the size of the horse requires. Belgians, while 

 essentially cold in their make-up are good movers, es- 



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