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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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se and the saddle-horse that the specialelegance and beautywhich it is capable ofimparting are more es-pecially demanded; butit must be observed thatin associating these twotypes it is not intendedto convey the idea thatthe configuration of neckbest suited to the onewould be ecjually ap-propriate to the other,nor that either wouldbe adapted to the horseof heavy draught. Onthe contrary, in eachcase the neck must beconstructed to meet the special purposes for which the animal is intended. The form of the neck, as everyone knows, varies very considerably indiiferent animals, and also in the same animal at different periods of life;hence it is designated arched (Plate I, fig. 2) when the upper borderdescribes a convexity along its whole length from the poll to the withers;sivan-neck (fig. 40) when the curve is confined, as in the neck of theswan, to the superior part; straight (fig. 41) when the superior and inferiorborders are rectilinear; and cive-ncck (fig. 42) when the upper border is
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Y\g 40 —Swan Neck 48 CONFORMATION AND ITS DEFECTS concave. The form of the neck not only influences the carriage of tlie head,but may in some measure conduce to speed and modify action. The hrsttwo varieties are especially favourable to rapid movement since theyallow of a more considerable extension of the head lieyond the base of.support than the others. When the neck is arched the head is disposed towards the verticalposition, sometimes so much so as to materially limit the range of vision, sothat objects at a distance are not observed. Moreover, the arched and the swan neck, by their ten-dency to curve the A^ertebraB inthe shape of an S, diminishthe length of the neck, movethe centre of gravity backward,and are more favourable to itselevation and depression aswell as to the lateral displace-ment of the trunk. They alsoofter advantages in the saddle-horse, in which grace, bril-liancy, and extent of move-ment are preferred (Goubauxand Barrier). Arching of theneck, although for the

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