The Importance of Thickness and Muscle in Horses

The bones of the shanks ought to be thick, being as they are the columns on which the body rests. A wide dilated nostril is at once better than a contracted one for respiration, and gives the animal a fiercer aspect. The neck should not be set on dropping forward from the chest like a bores, but like that of a gamecock rather. It should shoot upwards to the crest and be slack along the curvature. Small ears give a more typical and horse-like appearance to the head. lofty withers again allow the rider a sure seat, and stronger adhesion between the shoulders and the body.