Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-06-07

deep than too fat II may often hap
pen that OH soft and level country
roads fiat foot may not occasion
much trouble. but it is bad on hard
roads or In cities and Is In all cases a
defect in conformation.
The limbs should be ciean-that is,
free from fieshiness-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 the horse's body
This is very important point. as no
horse was ever good for much on the
road whose knees were too high up.
The hind legs should be fiat 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 a reasonable approach
to 1t. The gamDrel joint should be
strong and well developed, near slen-
der or ''dandified," and 1t Is also desir-
able to have 1t 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 well
developed, with the hip joints well
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 oblique.
The shoulders should be slanting, not
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 "potbellled." and
should be ribbed well up toward the
hips.
The chest should be deep rather than
wide, giving large lung capacity.
The neck should be free from undue
deshiness. 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 I
The point where 1t joins the head, so I
rs to give the conformation that we
,al "clean cut In the THROTTLE" I
structure that gives the breathing ap- !
laratls free play. I
The mead I'm well bred horses should
% small and almost as clean and bony !
is the limbs The face line viewed c
rom the side should be straight, not c
qulline. The forehead should be fat Z
,etween the eyes. The eyes should be t
# medium size. set well apart from c
ach other and not too near the top of :
he head. and the head when viewed
rom the front should slant In Ii little
rom the eyes upward. The ears
hould be fine. thin and pointed and 4,
( medium length. and they should be
o set on that when pointed forward
hey are parallel. not slanting apart. ..
These points Of equine perfection ~
re absolute. and therefore they apply y
, all kinds of horses. In judging :,
orses Of different types the difference a. =,
lust be in the application. not In the ~ ~
.andard Itself. for a good horse must
2 homogeneous In his makeup. every -
nrt In harmony with other parts. and -
very part must have such modifica- 81
on and proportion as conduces to that -
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