JUDGING A HORSE 



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attachments. Perfect score for draft, five points; for 

 driving, five points. 



Forequarters. — To give elasticity to the movement and 

 to permit of clean action the light horse's shoulders 

 should be long and sloping well into the back, thus 

 strengthening the back and extending the length of the 

 underline; the arms should be short and comparatively 

 upright, giving an upstanding appearance; the forearms 

 should be vertical, long and well muscled. The muscles 

 should be well developed and stand out distinctly just 

 below the junction of the leg and body and taper grace- 

 fully downward. The 



knees should be clean 

 cut, wide and deep. They 

 should be much broader 

 front than the leg. 



Fig. 12. — Position of Front Legs 

 Correct position; 2, standing under; 3. 



standing forward. 



in 



either above or below. 

 The cannons should be 

 short, deep, clean, and 

 the tendons well de- 

 tached ; the fetlocks 

 should be wide, deep 

 and free from pufifiness; 

 and the pasterns should 

 be clean, strong and 

 sloping. The feet should 



be round, dense, fine in texture and sound. The sole 

 should be concave; the bars strong and the frog large 

 and elastic and bear the mark of natural usage as a 

 buflfer. Perfect score for driving, 19 points. 



Among draft horses, the shoulders should be smooth, 

 heavily muscled and moderately sloping into the back. 

 A slope of about 45 degrees is proper. The arms should 

 be short, heavily muscled and extending well to the rear, 

 thus giving the horse a low-set appearance; the fore- 

 arms should be large, wide and heavily muscled. The 

 knees should be broad, deep and well defined, though 



