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opinion by the practical^ experience of Mr. Tom Jennings, 

 junr., the well-known trainer, who once remarked to me that 

 he always regarded as a good point in a race-horse, the fact 

 of its stifle being set high up in its flank — i.e., its having a 

 short thigh bone, and consequently being long from its stifle 

 to its hock. 



In the remainder of the body we might, possibly, also 

 find a series of inverse proportions as follows : — Head, short ; 

 neck, long ; back and loins, short ; croup, long ; bones of the 

 tail, short. 



Although I am well aware that the proportions of the 

 skeleton do not rigidly follow any strict mathematical rule ; 

 still I am strongly of opinion, from close study of the horse, 

 that in the large majority of cases the foregoing deductions 

 will be found to be correct. 



Differences of Conformation between the Two 

 Sexes, — As a rule, the mare, as compared to the horse, has 

 a lighter neck, a broader pelvis, is higher behind and slacker 

 in the loins, than he is. 



