The exterior of the horse . Fig. 168. Hocks Close, or Hooked—Horse Cow-hocked (Fig. 168).—The greatest disadvantage of the cow-hocked, close-hammed horse,which, according to the vulgar expression, has the legs en pieds de banc(or is bench-legged), is his being ungraceful in his gaits, at the sametime that he is outbow-footed behind. The normal movement of abduc-tion of the canon is here exaggerated when this region is flexed. Asort of rocking is also produced from the fact of the too great separationof the posterior feet. Finally, the impulsion communicated by thesemembers is less direct, less
The exterior of the horse . Fig. 168. Hocks Close, or Hooked—Horse Cow-hocked (Fig. 168).—The greatest disadvantage of the cow-hocked, close-hammed horse,which, according to the vulgar expression, has the legs en pieds de banc(or is bench-legged), is his being ungraceful in his gaits, at the sametime that he is outbow-footed behind. The normal movement of abduc-tion of the canon is here exaggerated when this region is flexed. Asort of rocking is also produced from the fact of the too great separationof the posterior feet. Finally, the impulsion communicated by thesemembers is less direct, less powerful, less rapid, than when the osseouslevers move in a plane almost parallel to the median plane. Vallon says, with reason,^ that this conformation is common to 1 Vallon, Couis dhippologie, t. i. p. 475. 464 THE EXTERIOR OF THE HORSE. many of the liorses in mountainous countries, especially remarkable fortheir aptitude for resisting fatigue and privations. It seems to existlikewise in the Barb horses and in those
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