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broken wind, is not impossible or improbable — but 

 this would be a work of time ; whereas I have heard 

 it roundly asserted that from such cause the animal 

 went broken- winded the next day, or was found to 

 be so. I should say, it was far more likely the horse 

 had been long defective in his wind, but that it had 

 escaped observation, as it did not prevent him work- 

 ing; then, indeed, the bucket of cold water might 

 produce such accelerated motion in the abdominal 

 muscles, that the long-hidden complaint became un- 

 mistakeably apparent ; hence the idea, that a horse 

 could become broken-winded in a day or night. 



There are controversial — perhaps, I may say, an- 

 tagonistic — opinions as regards the foal inheriting 

 the symmetry of either parent. I should unhesi- 

 tatingly say, I consider the distinctive symmetry is 

 stamped by the sire. I go upon these premises : it 

 is perfectly well known, that in breeding dogs, if 

 a bitch has produced whelps bearing the stamp of a 

 particular dog, though you change the sire, she will 

 often produce whelps the counterpart of the first 

 dog; this shows the sort originated with the first 



