. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. --r). --.:???..) OBLIQUE SHOULDER. UPRIGHT SHOULDER. fore, that horses intended to have high, and at the same time for-ward action, should have oblique shoulders, for without them theywill almost to a certainty either have very mean and low action,or, if they do bend their knees, they will put their feet downagain nearly on the same place as they took them from, which pe-culiarity we so often see displayed in the cart breed, or thosenearly allied to it. This is one of the most important uses of theobliquity of the
. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. --r). --.:???..) OBLIQUE SHOULDER. UPRIGHT SHOULDER. fore, that horses intended to have high, and at the same time for-ward action, should have oblique shoulders, for without them theywill almost to a certainty either have very mean and low action,or, if they do bend their knees, they will put their feet downagain nearly on the same place as they took them from, which pe-culiarity we so often see displayed in the cart breed, or thosenearly allied to it. This is one of the most important uses of theobliquity of the shoulder-blade as it seems to me, and one whichhas not been generally admitted by writers on this branch of thesubject, though all are ready to admit that in some way or otherthis formation is essential to good action. Another reason for theobliquity of the shoulder in the riding-horse, is that without it thesaddle is not kept back in its proper place, and the horsemansweight being thus thrown too forward, the action of the fore-quarter is impeded. Mere obliquity, however, i
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