. The family horse : its stabling, care and feeding : a practical manual for horse-keepers . Horses. 16 THE FAMILY HORSE. size and good frogs and broad heels. 'No frog, no foot j no foot, no horse.' The pasterns should be short, with round, smooth joints, good-size cannon bone, also short, with clean-cut ligaments and strong tendons, good-sized knee, and hocks clean and bony, long forearm, and from point of hip to hock ; stifles wide apart; broad and muscular hips, a weU-muscled and sUghtly-arched loin, short back, sound barrel, deep girth and oblique shoulders, a broad chest and nicely arched
. The family horse : its stabling, care and feeding : a practical manual for horse-keepers . Horses. 16 THE FAMILY HORSE. size and good frogs and broad heels. 'No frog, no foot j no foot, no horse.' The pasterns should be short, with round, smooth joints, good-size cannon bone, also short, with clean-cut ligaments and strong tendons, good-sized knee, and hocks clean and bony, long forearm, and from point of hip to hock ; stifles wide apart; broad and muscular hips, a weU-muscled and sUghtly-arched loin, short back, sound barrel, deep girth and oblique shoulders, a broad chest and nicely arched neck, fine at the throat-latch, and a head of the good old Morgan type. Such a horse is a model, with docile and .tractable temperament, resolution, power of endurance, and pleaa-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Martin, George A. , d. 1904. New York : Orange Judd Company
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