HUNTERS 



condition is established, it exercises a pernicious 

 influence upon the soft structures within the foot. 

 The only method of restoring the foot to its 

 normal condition is by paying attention to, and 

 the removal of, if possible, the cause. 



CALCIFIED LATERAL CARTILAGES 

 (SIDE-BONE) 



It is with a certain amount of diffidence that 

 the writer has been constrained to refer to this 

 condition in a book on the hunter ; nevertheless, 

 it is quite possible that some readers would 

 regard the omission of reference to side-bone 

 as unpardonable. 



Side-bone occasionally affects hunters' feet, 

 and, as in the case of other light horses, is 

 exceedingly detrimental. In this trouble, it is 

 the lateral cartilages of one or both feet that 

 are implicated. In their normal condition the 

 lateral cartilages are flexible plates attached to 

 the wings of the pedal bone, conferring upon 

 the upper border of the hoof an elastic backward 

 extension, so as to facilitate the soft structures 

 on the inner side of the cartilages, freedom of 



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