226 PUHCHASING A HOESE. 



S even — Examine the hind feet for the same defects of the foot 

 and ankle that we have named in connection with the front foot. 

 Then proceed to the hock, which is the seat of curb, and both bone 

 and blood spavins. 



The former is a bony enlargement of the posterior and lower 

 portion of the hock-joint ; the second, a bony excrescence on the 

 lower, inner, and rather anterior portion of the hock, and the latter 

 is a soft enlargement of the synovial membrane on the inner and 

 upper portion of the back. They are either of them sufficient reason 

 for rejecting. 



