WHERE THE WEIGHT IS CARRIED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5094, 3 August 1895, Page 3

WHERE THE WEIGHT IS CARRIED.

Tho feet and legs of horses aro attracting more attention among breeders than formerly, as nil breeds have good or bad feet and legs. A scientific writer in Europe says : " That there are more diseases of v, l the fore than of the hind logs of the M horse is only what would be expected from his conformation, his modo of progression and the nature of his work. Tho fore legs and feet are the first to suffer injury for they are tho most severely taxed both at 1 ease and at work. As demonstrated by experiments conducted by Professor Colins and others in France, and Professor Fred Smith in America if ft horse is carefully weighed on a B «jally prepared machine,itis found cffZtiwy to what would be oxpoctod, that tho foro legs support more than half the body weight, the forepart being heavier by about one-ninth than the hind. Then, again, whon a man sits upright on a horse's back with the saddle placed in its right position properly described in cavalry regulations as being "in the middle of the back, about tho breadth of the hand behind the play j, of the shoulder "—it will be found that 66 per cent, of his weight is carried by the fore lege.