Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, chapter 1, section 11

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A fairly large crest and fairly small ears give the more characteristic shape to a horse's head.

High withers offer the rider a safer seat and a stronger grip on the shoulders.

The double back¹ is both softer to sit on than the single and more pleasing to the eye.

1 “That was before the days of saddles, and horsemen had a tender interest in the double back—the characteristic back of dappled horses.”—Pocock, Horses, p. 118. “Duplex agitur per lumbos spina,” says Virgil Georg. 3.87.

Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 7. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1925.

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