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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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and movements of the head in everydirection are executed with freedomand enjoy ample range of action.The two 231iiicipal departures ordefects of conformation which occurhere consist in (l) too loose and(2) too close coupling. In the former the head is too disconnected fromthe neck or loosely hung (fig. 37), the groove referred to above is deepand wide, and commonly the neck is long and wanting in strength andmuscularity. This defect of conformation is frequently seen in horseslight in the middle, long in the leg, of irritable temperament, and wantingin general muscular development and vigour of constitution. Many of suchare roarers. In tlie latter the attachment of the head to the neck is closeand deep from poll to throat, the intervening groove is superficial, narrow,and ill-defined, and the union of the two parts is close and compact (fig. 38).Such a conformation not only detracts from the beauty of the fore end,but seriously curtails the range and liberty of movement of the head in
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Fig-. 37.—Head loosely Coupled COUPLING OF THE HEAD 45

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