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leading Newmarket vets. I saw the 

 horse examined, and was somewhat re- 

 lieved when, after giving him a rare 

 pipe-opener, the vet. pulled up, saying, 

 " Well, he's sound In his wind ; that's one 

 thing." He passed all right, and so it 

 was not an ill wind that blew my first 

 customer to one side. Last time I saw 

 the gentleman who bought the horse, 

 he asked me if I had some more like 

 him, as he had sold him for ^450. 



I am not a V.S., but I have more confi- 

 dence in my own trial of wind than theirs, 

 with a few exceptions I know of. In 

 Its incipient stages, you cannot always 

 detect roaring from a strong gallop. 

 Merely the gentlest canter down a shady 

 hedge-side, so the rustle of the wind 

 doesn't drown it, and in other cases the 

 " band won't play " without extreme ex- 

 ertion. Tracheotomy Is useful for chasers, 



