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Title: Cross country with horse and hound
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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shoulder. In other words, whenyou have a slanting shoulder with a long oblique true arm,it may bring the fore leg so far back that the centre ofgravity has practically been moved ahead. So far, there-fore, as gravity is concerned, you might just as well haveeither a straight shoulder with high, full withers, or astraight shoulder with a short upright and true arm. Or,again, if you have a slanting shoulder with a long obliquetrue arm, or a slanting shoulder with low withers, the endin view has been defeated. I have dwelt on this at lengthbecause slanting shoulders are everywhere so much infavour, as if they were the alpha and omega of a huntersconformation. At page 32 will be found an illustration(Fig. 3) showing the conformation of an ideal hunter withfull, sloping withers that bring the rider well back over thecentre of gravity on the upper line ; it will be observed, too,from the position where the girth would come, that thefore legs also are properly placed ; that is, well forward.
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eg. Riders centre ot gravity; ui, withers; s, shoulder-blade; /, true arm; e, elbow-joint; g, girths. Fig. I. Upright shoulder with full sloping withers, keeping saddle and rider well back over horses centre ; g, gravity. Fig. 2. Slanting shoulder with low withers, letting rider four or five inches farther forward than in Fig. i. Fig. J. Slanting shoulder, full sloping withers with upright true arm, bringing horses fore leg well forward of girths; best possible conformation for cross-country work.Fig. 4. Slanting shoulder and full withers, same as Fig. 3. but along oblique true arm, placing the fore legs farther back than in Fig. 3, practically moves riders centre of gravity forward in spite of slanting shoulder and full withers. The Hunter: His Conformation 33 The reason why ladies in riding cross country to houndsare so uniformly successful in negotiating fences withoutfalls is owing undoubtedly to their sitting sideways on thehorse; that is to say, the centre of gravity of the ride

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