SOUND AND UNSOUND HORSES 



It does not follow that such animals 

 will go lame, the writer having known 

 of several — one with huge sidebones — 

 that never showed the slightest signs 

 of lameness, neither had they ever 

 done so, so far as known. 



Many practitioners are in the habit of 

 passing cart horses with sidebone as 

 sound, provided that the feet are good 

 and well open at the heels. 



This is probably the outcome of the 

 fact that so many heavy horses are 

 affected with it, and that one would 

 have trouble in getting a suitable 

 animal without sidebone. 



If there are plenty of good horses 

 with sidebone, it is equally true that 

 there are plenty without. The size o 

 a sidebone is no criterion as to whether 

 it will produce lameness. 



Huge sidebones are frequently 

 (apparently) quite harmless. 



There can be no doubt that there is a 



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