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in harness, more particularly in double harness. How 

 long they may keep useable depends on the manage- 

 ment of those who use them, and upon their proper 

 adaptation to their work. UNSOUND. 



Broken Back. 



The name sufficiently explains this injury. It is 

 known by an aggravation of all the symptoms men- 

 tioned in chinked-back, added to which broken-backed 

 horses cannot kick. They may work a little as leaders 

 in carts, or dg other slow work. At all events, when you 

 are a buyer, consider them useless and UNSOUND. 



Dropping behind. 



Dropping behind, or knuckling with the pastern joint 

 or joints, may be produced by chinked or broken back. 

 (See both these articles.) In either of these cases the 

 horse is UNSOUND. 



Where, as is frequently the case, it is merely occa- 

 sioned by a pressure upon the kidneys from want of 

 medicine, until the physic, when applied, has ceased to 

 affect him, the horse is UNSOUND. 



When the medicine has worked off, if he no longer 

 drops, he is SOUND. 



Sometimes an awkward-fitting saddle will occasion 



