Identifier: horseitstreatmen01axej (find matches)
Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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SLOPING CROUP THE CROUP 59 and power. All horses, whatever their type and purpose, should possessthese attributes in a high degree, and of course in proportions best adaptedto the particular services required of them. In the race-horse an extendedcroup is of the first importance to the development of a high rate of speed.The muscles are then long, and their range of contraction and power overthe bony levers on which they act is correspondingly great. In the heavydraught-horse great length is not an essential quality, but, other thingsbeing equal, an extended croup is a feature much to be desired, since it notonly adds to the beauty of the animal as a whole, but materially increasesthe liberty and scope of action of the hind-limbs. Just as length is identified with speed, so is width related to power;hence it becomes of the first importance that in horses designed for heavywork the pelvis should be broad, thus affording ample space for the attach-ment of large, j^owerful muscles. Here

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