2 54 SOUNDNESS AND UNSOUNDNESS 



to fall into their eyes when hay is put down from 

 the loft above. It is equally obvious that drivers 

 should be extremely careful not to unnecessarily 

 injure a horse's sight through hitting him — even 

 unknowingly — in the eyes, whilst driving. In 

 fact you should never hit a horse beyond his 

 withers. Breed, too, from sound horses — espe- 

 cially those with good wind and eyesight. Let 

 constitution be paid great attention to, for, with 

 weak constitution, there is a tendency to weak 

 eyesight, and, in fact, weak everything else. 



A stable ought to be well lighted with a flood 

 of natural light from a window above the horse's 

 head. And, when you have paid true attention 

 to these seemingly very right acts to do, study 

 more advanced causes and treatment of the eye ; 

 but lay to heart the simple ones first, for, if you 

 neglect those, you are unlikely to divine much 

 benefit from incurable eye diseases when they 

 are brought home to you through a favourite or 

 valuable horse being rendered worthless to you — 

 partly because you took insufficient care of him, 

 or because you bought him after paying very 

 little attention to how your horse or mare was 

 originally bred. 



Broken Wind 



A thoroughly broken-winded horse is naturally 

 valueless for fast work, as, being once broken- 

 winded, means being always so. Heaving flanks, 

 a chronic cough, all point to this disease, brought 

 about through over-straining, under-feeding, or 



