The Horse - its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management (1905) (14577485589)

Identifier: horseitstreatmen01axej (find matches)
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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t is the trot without any weight on the back, can withoutdisadvantage have a horizontal croup. This is appreciated as a quality of beauty and fashion as well as forits mechanical advantages in rapid locomotion. 3. In draught-horses for fast, heavy work or mixed motors, combiningat the same time force from their bulk and their muscular power and acertain speed from their relative muscular activity ... a croup slightlymore inclined than that of the cavalry horse or the trotting horse willfulfil the required conditions (Goubaux and Barrier). Excessive inclination or backward slope of the croup constitutes theunsightly condition known as goose-rump. Such a conformation, al-though not inconsistent with ordinary work, is incapable of great speed. In the heavy horse it is the least objectionable, for although by suchconstruction the force of impulsion is transmitted too much in the verticaldirection to yield its fullest effects, the powers of draught may still be veryconsiderable. Plate VIII
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