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But if they occur on other parts, as on the top of the 

 .hock, termed capped hock, on the elbow, or on any other 

 place where they are of little consequence, and could 

 be moved without danger if they should become an in- 

 convenience, but at present appear of a fixed and deter- 

 mined size and form, then is the horse SOUND. 



Cutting. 



Should there be any places on the inside of the 

 pastern joint which have at some period had the hair 

 knocked off by the foot of the opposite leg, which you 

 may know to be the fact by the little bald places that 

 remain ever after, you must examine the action and 

 present condition of the horse, so as to ascertain whether 

 it was weakness, poverty, being over- worked or worked 

 too young, bad horsemanship, or a natural defect in 

 the action of the horse, that induced cutting. 



This last ought to be an UNSOUNDNESS, according to 

 the rule laid down, and is so, where the malformation is 

 so serious as to render the horse naturally incapable 

 of doing the work of horses of his class, unless, whatever 

 his breed, he is to be numbered with the slow-draught 

 horses ; in that case he is inefficient, not being capable 

 of the ordinary work of horses of this class. 



When a horse uses his legs so awkwardly that on the 

 least exertion he must cut them whether the peculiar 

 gait of the animal has been acquired by bad manage- 





