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STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION 



Forehand — Withers. — Well set up, extending well back, 

 muscular but neither low nor heavy, free from scars. 



Shoulders. — Long, oblique, smooth. 



Arms. — Short, muscular, carried forward. 



Forearms. — Broad and muscular. 



Knees. — Size proportionate to the weight of the horse, 

 straight, broad, deep, smooth, strongly supported. 



Canons. — Short, broad, fluted. Tendons, smooth, well set 

 back. 



Feiloclcs. — ^Wide, smooth, well supported. 



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Fig. 8. — Normal eye. 



Pasterns. — Long, sloping but strong. 



Feet. — Size in proportion to the weight of the horse, uni- 

 form ; form circular, walls straight, slope corresponding to slope 

 of pastern ; height at toe, side wall, and heel as 3 to 2 to 1. Sole 

 concave, bars strong, frog large, elastic, heels Avide, full ; texture 

 of horn dense, smooth, dark colored (Fig. 9). 



Legs.- — Viewed from in front, a perpendicular line dropped 

 from the point of the shoulder should divide the leg and foot into 

 two lateral halves (Fig. 10). Viewed from the side, a perpen- 

 dicular line dropped from, the tuberosity on the scapula should 



