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Chest-founder has been assumed to be unsoundness, 

 and also a SAVollen leg proceeding from a kick, but 

 not formally so decided in any recorded cases, though 

 as regards chest-founder, I shall hereafter refer to a 

 case in which it was relied upon as unsoundness. 



Roaring was held to constitute unsoundness, in the 

 case of Onslow v. Eames, 2 Starkie, 81. 



"Roaring constitutes unsoundness in a horse." 

 Lord Ellenborough : "If a horse be affected by any 

 malady which renders him less serviceable for a 

 permanency, I have no doubt that it is an unsound- 

 ness." 



Yet, in the following case of Bassett v, Collis, a 

 distinction is drawn, upon the authority of Sir James 

 Mansfield, who certainly was a good sportsman as 

 well as a learned judge, between roaring as a habit 

 and roaring attended by organic infirmity. The case 

 just mentioned was prior in point of date, and there- 

 fore, Onslow V. Eames is better authority. On the 

 trial of the latter cause, Mr Field stated in evidence, 

 that roaring was " occasioned by the neck of the 

 windpipe being too narrow for accelerated respira- 

 tion." Bassett v. Collis is found in 2 Campbell, 523; 

 the following are Lord Ellenborough's remarks: 



"It has been held by very high authority, (Sir 



