American turf register and sporting magazine . etting on safely as the other, both being indebted to theiroriginal bad built (or charpente, as Lafosse calls it) for the them both, the one with muscle and skin, the other with dra-pery, how you will, the faulty legs are faulty still. A good stableaphorism has it thus—a horse that does not stand well can do noth-ing well; and by natural inference, the horse that walks well canperform other paces well. A much better example, however, may be found in a four-leggedtable, of which every horseman knows there are many of differentsizes and
American turf register and sporting magazine . etting on safely as the other, both being indebted to theiroriginal bad built (or charpente, as Lafosse calls it) for the them both, the one with muscle and skin, the other with dra-pery, how you will, the faulty legs are faulty still. A good stableaphorism has it thus—a horse that does not stand well can do noth-ing well; and by natural inference, the horse that walks well canperform other paces well. A much better example, however, may be found in a four-leggedtable, of which every horseman knows there are many of differentsizes and of various workmanship, some for heavy or rough usage,others more for show and to sustain light weights. But, if the foreand hind legs bend towards each other uponthe ground, any carpenter may see that thisfirst element of an ill-formation must sooneror later produce a fall; he will know thatmore strength for su])porting great weightswould be found by making all four legs per-pendicular. But a horse not being like a table, immoveably fixed.
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