PROFILE OF FACE. 143 



Profile of Face. — The line of the forehead and nose, 

 when viewed in profile, will, as a rule, be straight, concave or 

 convex. The first two forms of contour are more or less 

 characteristic of the thoroughbred and Arab (Figs. 323 and 

 244) ; although it is only correct to say that many horses of 

 aristocratic English blood have Roman noses, especially those 

 bred in the Colonies. I have never seen a high caste Arab 

 have such a conformation. The true concave face is obtained, 

 not by a prominent forehead, as in Fig. 245 ; but by a dip in the 

 nose between the eyes and nostrils (Fig. 244). Ormonde's 

 face (Frontispiece) tends to concavity. For a convex profile 

 (Roman nose), see Fig. 246. This shape might be objected to 

 on account of its liability to render the air passages of the 

 head curved, instead of straight, in which case there might be 

 some light interference with the ready ingress and egress of 

 respired air. I have, however, never met with a case in 

 which a Roman nose was the cause of impaired breathing 

 power ; although I have known a horse become a roarer 

 from alteration in the shape of the nasal cavities from a 

 disease of the bones called osteo porosis, or **bief head," 

 I may mention that many heavy 4t-horses have^ Roman 

 noses. 



Colonel John Anderson, late Inspecting Veterinary 

 Surgeon, Bombay Army (than whom no better judge of 

 a horse exists), remarked to me many years ago, that a 

 prominent forehead (Fig. 245), or a rise between the eyes, is 

 an indication of a bad, or at least of a wayward, temper in a 

 horse. I have no theory to advance in support of this idea, 

 the truth of which, however, I have seen verified in many 

 instances. The original of Fig. 245 was a rascal of the deepest 

 dye. Tristan (Fig. 240) had this fatal bump between his 

 eyes, and he was a " thief," as well as a bit of a *' savage.'' 

 His name will recall to many old race-goers the memorable 

 struggle for the Cambridgeshire of 1881, when, ridden by 

 poor George Fordham, he finished third to Foxhall and Lucy 

 Glitters. It is but just to the chestnut son of Hermit and 

 Thrift to say that his trainer, Mr, Tom Jennings, junr., tells 



