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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ofthe trunk it is necessary that our inspections should be made from differentpoints of view, especially from before and behind, while a glance fromabove will materially aid in rendering our estimate of the proportions ofthis part more satisfactory and complete. In all varieties of the horseample width is essential to power and endurance; any shortcoming in thisrespect not only betrays a lack of muscular development, but is usuallyassociated with flat sides and want of chest-room. Narrowness is a seriousdefect of conformation. Viewed from the front the breast should be wide,the shoulders muscular, the ribs well sprung, and the hips broad and full ofmuscle. The magnitude of the body in this respect will vary for animalsof difterent types, but in due proportion it should be insisted upon in all.In horses for speed width is e.specially desiralile behind, where the propellingpower resides, while too much in front would tend to encumber movementand impose undue weight and wear on the legs.
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o a:<-x. <f- LU o 5i 5. gS Q O 0 THE HEAD AS A UNIT OF MEASUREMENT 99 PEOPORTIONS OF HEIGHT TO LENGTH What is the most desirable relation in the proportions of height tolength is a matter upon which opinions may differ, but it is held by thosewho have thoroughly studied the question that the most perfect conforma-tion will be found where the dimensions of the one most nearly approximateto those of the other. Here it should be pointed out that the so-calledlong low horse so much admired by connoisseurs is not, as it seems to be,so much greater in length than height, but owes the apparent discrepancyof proportion in these dimensions to the fact that he stands on shorter legs,and is consequently nearer the ground. In this way he is made to looklow, but the greater depth of body which such animals usually possess addmaterially to their height. Any considerable excess of height over length is always a seriousdefect of conformation. Animals so constructed are mostly narrow, defi-cient

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