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do for saddle purposed because he would not be graceful in his 
movements, and men who ride high class horses, like them with 
plenty of rein, in order that they may be handled in a more agree¬ 
able way; it is not a pleasant thing to have the horse’s head too 
near you when in the saddle. 
Those who drive generally prefer the rangy neck to the short 
variety for similar reasons. 
The peacock neck is one which usually has many admirers; 
the name is given to it from the supposed resemblance to the 
neck of that bird. The style of conformation is occasioned by the 
upper border of the neck ( the crest ) becoming somewhat elevated 
or unusually prominent about six inches from the poll; they are 
found in all kinds of horses and, while they do not indicate any¬ 
thing of special value in the line of merit, they are coveted on 
account of their beauty. 
The ewe neck is one in which the upper border is concave in¬ 
stead of being convex and the lower border bulges more or less, 
giving rise to the expression, “that neck is upside down.” Many 
p-ood horses are formed in this way, though it is a foim that is 
often objected to, more from its appearance than anything else 
we are aware of. 
The straight neck is one in which the upper and lower borders 
are practically straight, tapering gradually from the chest to the 
throat; we find this style both in good and bad horses. 
The clean cut neck is the one our preference leans towards; 
in it the muscles and other parts stand boldly out, the crest is 
prominent and whipcordy or wiry, the sides are marked by hard 
muscles, the lower border including the windpipe, stands out per¬ 
ceptibly leaving a prominent groove, the jugular gutter, between 
it and the neck above, gracefully incurvated near the throat and 
attached to the head in a manner that leaves a line of demarca¬ 
tion between the leaving off of the head and the beginning of the 
neck, doing away with the appearance of a plastered on head. 
The posterior part usually terminates perceptibly just in front of 
the withers, so that one can tell where the neck leaves off and 
the withers begin, a point that is not always easy to determine. 
