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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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ad-vantage. In shiftinga heavy load the cart-horse takes advantage of this l)y bending the joints (fig. 68) so as toincrease still further the obliquity of the bones and give more etfectiveaction to the muscles. Acting in this attitude the limbs are less considerably extended,whereby the steps become short and the movements slow, but the poweris greatly augmented. In conformity with the anatomical disposition of the bones whichform the true hock-joint, the movements of the hock are restricted tothose of flexion and extension. In the former case the canon is carriedforward and upward, in the latter it is drawn downward and backward.It is also noticeable that, viewed from behind, this joint is directed some-what obliquely outward, so that its hinge-like formation is enal^led togive the entire limb an outward inclination in its forward stroke, bywhich the stifle is prevented from being brought into contact with thebelly, a provision of the highest importance to race-horses, chasers, and
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Copyright 1S97 hyEadweard Muyljridge. Redrawn from Animals in Motion(Chapman.ind Hall)Fig. 68.—The Hind-Limbs bent in drawing a Load BOW-LEGS 89 hunters, where the hind-limits while being raised require at the sametime to be advanced well under the body. COW-HOCKS This term is applied to that defect of conformation in which thepoints of the hocks are turned in (fig. 69). Animals so constructed arenot unfrequently defective in other respects, often leggy, badly coupled,split up, and narrow behind, with the toes directed unduly outward. Althouo-h in-turnedhocks in moderate de-gree do not interferewith a horses useful-ness, in the more pro-nounced cases it is notonly an eyesore, butwhen coexi.sting withthe other defects re-ferred to, it is a mark ofweakness, and materi-all) impairs the actionof the limbs, which aremade to move toomuch away from thebody instead of in aline parallel to it.As a result of this anawkward roll is imparted to the gait, and both power and speed are therebymore

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