262 SOUNDNESS AND UNSOUNDNESS 



through heavy work, and are very easily detected 

 by a bulging out or enlargement immediately 

 beneath the hock joint. The treatment is the 

 same as in ring-bones or side-bones. 



When riding three-year-olds, heavy breakers 

 are very apt to cause this disease, which a light- 

 weight would never have given. Horses having 

 crouched hocks not infrequently have them. In 

 fact, many a magnificent jumper has been fired 

 for them, and performs admirably after them. 

 But it is a needless cruelty to give a horse curbs 

 through asking him to carry more weight than 

 nature fitted him to. 



