The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-07-01

deep than too fiat. 1t may often hap
pen that on soft and level country
roads a fiat foot may not occasion
much trouble, but it is bad ON hard
roads or in cities and is. in aid cases a
defect in conformation.
The limbs should be cleaa-that is,
free from fleshiness-but have plenty
Of bone and substance. The fore legs
should be relatively short from the
fetlock joint up to the knee and long
from the knee up to tftes horses body.
This is very Important point. as no
horse was ever good for much ON the
road whose knees were .teo high up.
The hind legs should be fat as well
as clean. This excessive cleanness
goes with highly bred horses, and is to
be insisted ON in all horses that prop
erly belong in that class, such as thor
oughbreds, trotters. hackneys. etc. In
colder blooded horses we should de-
mand at least reasonable approach
to it, The gambrel joint should be
strong and we'll developed, near slen-
der or ''dandified," and it is also desir-
able to have it relatively near the
ground, though this is not as impor-
tant as the position of the fore knee
The horse should stand square on
his legs with his feet we'll under him,
and his hoofs should be straight fore
and aft, neither toeing in nor toeing
OUT
For the body of the horse the back
should be short.
The hind quarters should be we'll
developed, with the hip Joints we'll
forward. The rump should not be
straight. but rather straight than
drooping-that is. the line from the
top Of the hips to the root of the tail
should be only moderately obiique.
The shoulders should be slanting. mot
upright, and the withers reasonably
high. This conformation makes a
strong as well as elegant shoulder.
The body should be nicely rounded,
neither gaunt nor ''pOtbellied." and
should be ribbed well up toward the
hips.
The chest should be deep rather than
wide, giving large hung capacity.
The neck should ba free from undue
feshiness. 1t may be either long or
short, as far as utility is, concerned.
the long. of course. being much more
elegant and therefore to be preferred
on well bred horses. In either case
it should be bent a, little just before
the point where it, joins the head, so
as to give the conformation that we
call ''clean cut. in the throttle" a
structure that gives the breathing ap-
paratus free play.
The head in well bred horses should
be small and almost as clean and bony
as the limbs. The, face line viewed
from the side should be straight, not
auuiline. The forehead should be fiat
between the eyes. The eyes should be
of medium size. set we'll apart from
each other and not too near the top of
the head, and the head when viewed
from the front should slant in a little
from the eyes upward The ears
should he fine, thin and pointed and
of medium. length, and they should be
so set on that when pointed forward
they are, parallel, not slanting apart.
These points Of equine perfection
are absolute, and therefore they apply
to all kinds of horses. In judging
horses of different types the difference
must be m the application, not I'D TIT
standard itself. for a good horse mus
be, homogeneous in his makeup, every
part in harmony with other parts. an(
every part must have such modifica
ton and proportion as conduces to tina
end.