The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . Fig. 1. Hind leg of Arab of coarsetype, with callosity like that ofPrejvalskys horse. Sir W. H. Flower, The Horse, p. 170 (but he held that the ergot on thehinder aspect of the horses pastern appears to represent one of the pads, whichare still functional in the foot of the tapir). Mr B. W. Lydekker, ( Soc., 1903, pp. 199—203) has attempted not so much to show what theequine callosities represent, but i-ather from palaeontological considerationsthe imjarobability of their being vestigial foot-pads. 14 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE [C
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . Fig. 1. Hind leg of Arab of coarsetype, with callosity like that ofPrejvalskys horse. Sir W. H. Flower, The Horse, p. 170 (but he held that the ergot on thehinder aspect of the horses pastern appears to represent one of the pads, whichare still functional in the foot of the tapir). Mr B. W. Lydekker, ( Soc., 1903, pp. 199—203) has attempted not so much to show what theequine callosities represent, but i-ather from palaeontological considerationsthe imjarobability of their being vestigial foot-pads. 14 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE [CH. absence in pure-bred Arab horses and in thoroughbreds. Thenearer a horse approaches the heavy draught type, the thickeris the growth of the callosities on his legs\ We shall presently find (p. 19) that in the typical Celticpony the hock callosities are wanting, as is not unfrequently thecase in North African horses, the front chestnuts are small, whilst.
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