The bones of the shanks should be thick, Wide would be a more suitable word. 
						since these are the pillars of the body; but not thick with veins nor with
						flesh, else when the horse is ridden over hard ground, these parts are bound
						to become charged with blood and varicose; the legs will swell, and the skin
						will fall away, and when this gets loose the pin, The Greek word means the fibula in man, but the fibula,
							of course, is no part of the shank in the horse. Morgan rightly says
							that X. writes throughout of the horse as he appears outwardly, and not
							of the skeleton (with which he was unacquainted), and that the allusion
							is to the back sinew of the shin. too, is apt to give way and
						lame the horse. If the colt’s knees are supple when bending as
						he walks, you may guess that his legs will be supple when he is ridden too,
						for all horses acquire greater suppleness at the knee as time goes on.
						Supple knees are rightly approved, since they render the horse less likely
						to stumble and tire than stiff legs.