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the hips to the root of the tail should be only 

 moderately oblique. I am by no means certain 

 that the straightness or obliquity of this line 

 really makes much difference to the value of the 

 horse: in hundreds that I have examined and seen 



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put to severe road and other work I could never 

 perceive that it did. But the moderately oblique 

 line is far more elegant and it is one of the points 

 of equine perfection, and, as such, should always 

 have due consideration. 



The shoulders should be slanting, not upright. 



