There are so many good horses of comparatively different shapes, and so many, which possessing the same useful properties, are widely different in general appearance, that it would be difficult to single out any particular horse as the standard of perfection.

Attention to the following points, which are indispensably requisite to form a perfect animal, will enable those who are fond of a horse, to judge with accuracy of the goodness of his shape; and, as he possesses these necessary qualifications in a less, or a greater degree, to decide that he is more or less distant from that standard, of which I am endeavouring to give what, I fear, will prove an imperfect idea.