DISEASES, DEFECTS, ETC. 103 



the case, tliere is thereby iuduced a habit of shying, such 

 shying is an Unsoundness, although there is no disease, and 

 although it is the natural result of a congenital malforma- 

 tion of the eye {s). 



Side-bones is the same disease as Ossification of the carti- Side-bones. 

 lages(i^). A lameness is caused, which is removed by 

 absolute rest for a length of time, but quick work on a 

 hard road soon brings it back again. It is an Unsoundness, 

 whether it produces lameness or not (u). 



Many Horses are very clever at Slipping the collar at Slipping the 

 night ; they gorge themselves with food, and run the risk '^°ll^'^^"- 

 of being kicked and lamed by other Horses {v) . As this 

 may be prevented either by carefully and accurately fixing 

 his collar, or by keeping him in a loose box, it cannot in 

 practice be considered a Vice. 



Spavin is an Unsoundness. See Blood and Bog-spavin («'), Spa\an. 

 and Bone-spavin (x). 



The inside of the leg, immediately under the knee, and Speedy-cut. 

 extending to the head of the inner splint-bone, is subject 

 to injury from what is termed the Speed //-cut, which takes 

 place when a Horse with high action, and in the fast trot, 

 violently strikes this part either with his hoof, or the edge 

 of his shoe. Sometimes a bony enlargement is the result ; 

 at others, great heat and tenderness ; and the pain from 

 the blow seems occasionally to be So great, that the Horse 

 drops as if he were shot (//). Speed ij-cut, like Cutting (;:), 

 is the consequence of defective shape ; and therefore, 

 where a Horse is sound at the time of sale, lameness from 

 a Speed//-cut immediately afterwards is no breach of a 

 Warrant// of Soundness. 



A Splint, like a Bone-spa L-i)i (a), is an excrescence or Splint. 

 bony deposit on the leg of a Horse, and the danger in 

 both cases is the probability of their interfering with his 

 action ; the Bone-sparin, by preventing the proper ilexion 

 of the joint, and the Splint, by pressing on the sinews of 

 the leg. Lameness is thus produced by each ; by Bone- 

 spavin nearly always, by a Spjlint sometimes. It entirely 

 depends on the situation of the bony tumour on the inside 



(?) RoJidaij y. Morgan, 28 L. J., («) Blood and Bog-spavin, ante, 



Q. B. 9. See ante, p. 71. p. 77. 



{t) Ossification of the Cartilages, {x) Bone-spavin, ante, p. 77. 



ante, p. 96. (y) Lih. U. K. "The Horse," 



(«) Simpson V. Fotts, Appendix. 245. 



\v) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," {--) Cutting, ante, p. 87. 



344. [ft) Bone-spavin, ante, p. 77. 



