At the beginning I want to write how to be cheated least when buying a horse. So one must look at the feet. As a house has no value and utility, when the upper parts are built beautiful, but do not stand on a firm ground, so a war-horse is useless, when everything is good and looks good, but the feet are weak and ugly. In this case all other advantages also cannot take effect. When examining the hind legs one should watch the hoof walls.
Strong ones are always better than the thin.
High hoofs keep the frog away from the ground, while flat hoofs, touch the ground equally with the weak and with the strong part of the hoof, exactly like people with flatfeet. Also by the sound you can recognize horses with good feet and hoofs. The hollow hoof sounds like a cymbal, that old music instrument of two metal bowls, which stroked together give a clear sound. At the most important point, the horse hoof, I have started with the examination. Now we are proceeding upwards to the rest of the body.