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. 1897 Excerpt: ... as a rule, are not so well ribbed up as horses. Hence some slight slackness in the hollow of the flank is not such a grave fault in them as in entires and geldings. The fact, however, remains, that for all purposes of work, a horse or mare cannot be too well ribbed up. Merche remarks that: "Among common horses, the ...
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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. 1897 Excerpt: ... as a rule, are not so well ribbed up as horses. Hence some slight slackness in the hollow of the flank is not such a grave fault in them as in entires and geldings. The fact, however, remains, that for all purposes of work, a horse or mare cannot be too well ribbed up. Merche remarks that: "Among common horses, the last rib is less arched and less carried back than among blood horses; and the flank consequently appears longer." St. Simon, among many other great race-horses, was an instance of a fine stayer, who possessed singularly little depth at the withers, but had great roundness of chest behind the girth, and also fair depth of body at the lowest point of his back. It is essential for the race-horse to obtain good breathing power by roundness of ribs, so that his body may have its powers of breathing fully developed without its length being unduly increased. The great advantage of depth in the front portion of the chest is to allow of good length of shoulder blade, which is indispensable to the weight-carrier and jumper. Abdomen.--We have seen on p. 37 that the trunk is divided by the diaphragm into two portions, the chest and abdomen; the former containing the lungs and heart; the ABDOMEN. latter, the stomach, liver, intestines, bladder and other organs. The ribs form the walls of the chest. The contents of the belly (consisting mostly of the intestines) are kept in their place chiefly by powerful ligaments, the principal one of which is the abdominal tunic (p. 28), and by muscles. These structures are respectively attached to the margin of the front part of the pelvis, to the rear part of the breast bone, rearmost edge of the ribs, and to the sides of the loin vertebrae, thus bridging over the vacant space. We may, then, fairly assume that...
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