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the horse grunts on being backed, or winces on being 

 pressed on the affected part. Unsoukd. 



Where the injury is slight, chinked-back horses fre- 

 quently carry light weights very well, but are best in har- 

 ness, more particularly in double harness. How long they 

 may keep usable depends on the management 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 mentioned in 

 chinked-back, added to which broken-backed horses can- 

 not kick. They may work a little as leaders in carts, or 

 do other slow work. At all events, when you are a buyer, 

 consider them useless and Unsouxd. 



DHOPPING BEHIND. 



Dropping behind, or knuckling with the pastern joint 

 or joints, may l)e 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 tlie kidneys from want of med- 

 icme, 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 him 

 to drop as above described. Here you have only to re- 

 move the cause, when it is hardly necessary to add that 

 the horse is Sound. 



