Notes on Cart Horses. 
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bone. I say, apart from the question of muscles, for un- 
doubtedly these exercise no little influence upon action, 
although the exact manner is beyond my knowledge. Two of 
the best weight-carrying hunters I have ever ridden had, what 
t 
were deemed, upright shoulders ; but this was compensated 
for by their fore legs being put in very forward, arising from 
the angle of the humerus bone approaching that in Fig. 1. 
I have never possessed a horse with first-rate walking or 
trotting action with shoulders resembling Fig. 2, p. 316. 
