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ing, while with the veterinary surgeon these forms of 

 injury or disease are only occasionally met, and he has 

 no reason to specially study them any more than any 

 other one of the thousand ills that equine flesh is 

 heir to. 



Many horses have trotted creditable races and fallen 

 fast records when practically broken down. Smuggler 

 ''had a leg" all through his great campaign of 1876. 

 It was an enlarged or "filled" foreleg, and he was 

 lame of it the greater part of the time. People said 

 that every race would be his last, and it would not 

 have greatly surprised me to have seen him break down 

 entirely after any fast heat. His campaign must be 

 esteemed all the greater on that account. Other horses 

 have done great things for me after they had gone 

 wrong. We supposed Palo Alto to have been broken 

 down after his four-year-old campaign, and it was with 

 "fear and trembling" that we endeavored to train him 

 last spring. But he stood up through great races, and 

 went a mile in 2:1 2 J, faster than any stallion ever 

 trotted previous to 1889. Sallie Benton had a strained 

 suspensory ligament when she made her record of 

 2:1 7f. Fred Crocker had a bad tendon when he low- 

 ered the two-year old record to 2:25J. Elaine gave 

 way in one of the rear flexor tendons, and trotted her 

 races with the tendon supjxjrted by a rubber bandage 

 about four inches wide and five feet long, wrapped 

 about the leg, and fastened with a rubber strap. 

 Bonita, too, was a virtually broken down mare before 

 she was retired, and Occident's traveling gear was 

 "out of fix" before I ever trotted him. I only cite 

 these cases to show what patient patching-up and care 



