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action, even at the lowest, will still be higher and more regular than the slow 
action of the trotter or thoroughbred, and, as it will always clear the ground, it 
must be safer. The hackney-bred horse will never spread its hind legs, and 
‘whether it goes fast or slow will act in true rhythm, putting the hind feet in the 
spot where the front feet are taken from. 
OTHER GOOD POINTS, 
The soundness of the hackney as a breed has always been one of its chief 
characteristics. It is only gradually trained to harness up to its third or fourth 
year, so that its wind is not ruined, or its lees and muscles overstrained before 
maturity. At four years old the hackney must, then, be better constitutionally 
than the trained trotter or thoroughbred, which from two years old is compelled 
to compete in races. Never being asked to draw extraordinary weight, nor to 
travel quicker than 8, 10, or 12 miles an hour, it stands to sense that a hackney 
must be in healthy condition, and is, therefore, able to get or produce healthy 
offspring. Under these conditions, it is not wonderful to find that the hackney 
is the most tractable of all horses as a race. It is easily handled and broken, 
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. Face. 12. Breast. 24. Forearm. 36. Leg. 
2. Forehead. 18, Withers, 25, Knee, 37. Hock. 
3. Ears, : 14. Back. 26. Canon or shank. 38, Canon or shank. 
4, Lower jaw. 15., Ribs. 27. Fetlock joint. 39. Fetlock joint. 
5. Cheek. 16. Girth. 28. Pastern. 40. Ergot and fetlock. 
§, Poll. 17. Loins. 29. Coronet. 41. Pastern. 
7. Throat. 18. Croup. 30. Foot. 42. Coronet. 
8. Paratid. 19. Dock. 31. Ergot and fetlock, 43. Foot. 
9. Neck. 20. Flank. 32. Haunch. 44. Lower thigh. 
10. Crest. 21. Belly. 33. Thigh. 45. Point of hock. 
11, Jugular Channe! or 22. Point of Shoulder 34. Stifte. 
furrow. 23. Elbow. 35. Buttock 
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