The encyclopædia of the stable The encyclopædia of the stable: a complete manual of the horse, its breeds, anatomy, physiology, diseases, breeding, breaking, training and management, with articles on harness, farriery, carriages, etc. comprising a thousand hints to horse owners encyclopdiaofs00shaw Year: 1909 KNEE ROLL—KNOTS Knee Roll.—The padded projection which extends in front of the flaps of some saddles to assist the riders in keeping their seats. (See Flap, Saddle.) Knees.—The knees are the joints between the fore-arm and cannon bone, and consist of seven, and sometimes eight bones, viz
The encyclopædia of the stable The encyclopædia of the stable: a complete manual of the horse, its breeds, anatomy, physiology, diseases, breeding, breaking, training and management, with articles on harness, farriery, carriages, etc. comprising a thousand hints to horse owners encyclopdiaofs00shaw Year: 1909 KNEE ROLL—KNOTS Knee Roll.—The padded projection which extends in front of the flaps of some saddles to assist the riders in keeping their seats. (See Flap, Saddle.) Knees.—The knees are the joints between the fore-arm and cannon bone, and consist of seven, and sometimes eight bones, viz., three flat ones on the top, three on the bottom, and either one or two at the back. The top flat bones, counting from the outside to the inside, are the cunieform, the lunar, and the scarphoid ; the bottom ones the unieform, the magnum, and the trapezoid. The pisiform is a bone at the back and outside of the upper row, and is curved to allow space for the tendons of the leg to pass downwards. The eighth bone, which occasionally appears, is called the trapezium, and is at the back of the trapezoid. (See Bones, Fore-legs.) Knots.—The accompanying illustrations represent two knots which every one connected with horses should be able to make. Emergencies so often arise that the ability to
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