This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...i J.-H. Magne, lou. oil., p. 351. itself. How can we judge of the amount of good breeding possessed by a given horse? Two sources of indications enable us to do so: one of them refers to characters drawn from the general conformation; the other to the external manifestations of the activity of the nervous ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...i J.-H. Magne, lou. oil., p. 351. itself. How can we judge of the amount of good breeding possessed by a given horse? Two sources of indications enable us to do so: one of them refers to characters drawn from the general conformation; the other to the external manifestations of the activity of the nervous system. The first is founded upon this fact, that the English and the Arabian horses are constantly infusing better breeding into our common raw's. Whence it results that these agents of amelioration should transmit to their descendants the principal features of their conformation as well as their " blood." The second results from this other consideration, that the "blood" and the temperament, consisting in the intensity of the reflective power, will be seen by the different external states of the organs of the senses, --sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. This last source of information is sometimes the only one, --for example, when it is a question of a common race, free from all mixed breeding, in which the "blood" sprang into existence under the influence of the external conditions only. Our own restrictions being made upon this point, and the cases in question being, moreover, rather infrequent, we would say that the qualities proper to the blood will be recognized by: A slender body of a stature generally tall; a slender figure, long members, firm and long muscles, projecting, developed osseous prominences; a neat, light, square head; a wide forehead; movable ears and nostrils; quick, expressive eyes; thin lips; a long, straight, pyramidal neck; prominent withers; short back and loins; long and horizontal croup; well-attached tail; high and long chest; slightly-developed belly; long and oblique shoulder;...
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