60 THE HORSE. 



tended, and a peculiar seam or wrinkle between them be- 

 ing perceptible, whereas in horses of "good wind" no 

 such mark can be found. 



Broken-winded horses are UNSOUND. 



ROARING. 



Horses afflicted with the disease named roaring make, 

 when galloping or trotting, a peculiar noise, the nature 

 of which is sufficiently indicated by its name. Such 

 horses, upon being suddenly agitated, checked, or pulled 

 up short, make more or less of this noise, according to 

 the progress the disease has made. Koaring is a chronic 

 disease of the windpipe, or perhaps, more correctly, the 

 remains of such a disease; but when it is not acute or se- 

 rious, the horse does not appear to suffer much incon- 

 venience from it in its earlier stages, although the noiso 

 caused by it is very unpleasant; if the horse is put to fast 

 work, the noise will increase, till it at last becomes most 

 distressing to both horse and user. 



The roarer's coat usually indicates a departure from 

 robust health, however fat the horse may be. 



Such a horse is adapted to slow work only, and is 



UNSOUND. 



GRUNTING. 



Although grunting, which is produced in the horse by 

 his being suddenly agitated by the use of spur or whip, 

 or by his being pulled up hastily, is not unlike roaring, 

 yet as he does not make the former sound on any other 

 occasion, I believe the two affections, roaring and grunt- 

 ing, to be quite distinct. 



The coat of the grunter does not imply disease. 



