SOUND AND UNSOUND HORSES 



natural tendency for the lateral carti- 

 lages to undergo calcification, more 

 especially with heavy work, increasing 

 age, and hard roads. 



Locality has nothing to do with the 

 production of sidebone, unless it be 

 from the nature of the ground, street 

 paving, etc. 



Many young horses, absolutely free 

 from sidebone, after working on hard 

 roads, are not very long before 

 showing evidence of it. The chief 

 objection to passing a horse with side- 

 bone as " sound," is the difficulty one 

 has in saying how long it will remain so. 



At the best, opinion is speculative. 

 With the client not much trouble is 

 likely to arise, because no man could 

 come forward and prove that the animal 

 had the disease (after a period of say, 

 three weeks), at the time of examination. 



There is no data as to the length of 

 time that it takes for a lateral carti- 



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