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into the horse at the usual pace, recommends the 

 owner to put the horse out of training ; and perhaps at 

 an age when there might have been a great deal of 

 good running left in him ; and in all probability, he 

 might have continued in training for two or three 

 years longer, had proper attention been paid to his 

 feet while he yet continued a young one. 



To make further comment on the navicular disease 

 would be useless, as I am totally unacquainted with 

 any remedy by which it may be cured. Attention 

 should principally be directed to prevent, as much as 

 possible, this disease, or any other, from taking 

 place ; for when horses fall lame in their feet, it is 

 often difficult to get them sound again, unless the 

 lameness proceeds from a mechanical injury. I think 

 of the number of horses that become progressively 

 lame from strong and rapid work, not more than half 

 are again brought permanently sound, unless their work 

 is stopped, and early means resorted to for their relief. 



It has been pretty generally remarked by those w 

 have travelled on the Continent, (and I have observed 

 the same myself,) that horses there are not to be seen 

 lame in their feet to any thing like the extent of our 

 horses in England. This circumstance has led many 

 people to suppose that there must be some veiy great 

 defect in the shoeing of horses in this country, which 

 does not exist on the Continent. 



This is certainly not the fact. In proof of this 

 contradictory assertion, I shall take, by way of ex- 

 ample, the horses most frequently and the most 



