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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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ior limbs are carried for under the trunk, their foot-prints are much beyond those of the anterior, the hind-quarters are stronglybuilt, the crouji and loins are vigorous and well supported, the spines of thedorsal vertebrae are long, and the shoulder very oblique. There is thentruly a compensation. (Goubaux and Barrier.) LENGTH The length of the body is the distance from the point of the shoulder infront to a line falling from the point of the buttock behind. Althoughvarying in different animals, it will Ije found, as first pointed out by 96 CONFORMATION AND ITS DEFECTS Bourgelat, that in most well-formed horses it equals about two and ahalf times the length of the head, and it would seem that any considerabledeparture from this rule, either in regard to excess or deficiency, tends torender the conformation more or less seriously defective. In dealing with this part of the subject it will be important to considerwhat are the elements by which the length of the body is determined, and
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Fig. 71.—Excessive Length from two different CausesAfter Goubaux and Bamer. (By permission of Messrs. Lippincott) what are the relations in which they stand to each other. In answer tothe first question it may be stated that the parts which concur to make upthe sum of the body-length are the spine, the .shoulder, and the buttock.The two latter furnish the anterior and posterior extremity respectively,while the former intervenes to form the back and loins. As we havealready observed, the length of tlie body in a well-formed horse is about LENGTH 97 equal to two and a half times the length of his head, and whether it ismore or less will depend upon the length of the spine on the one hand,and the extent, direction, and relations of the shoulder and croup on theother. It is to De Saint-Ange ^ that we owe the figurative expression ofthese interesting facts, as shown in the following illustrations.

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