62 THE STUD. 



EOABING AND WHISTLING. 



Both the complaints are perfectly distinct from 

 asthma and broken wind, though asthma is not 

 unfrequently an accompaniment to them. When 

 such is the case, of course the animal breathes 

 with difficulty ; this arising not from the roaring, 

 but the asthmatic affection. If the lungs and all 

 the parts are sound, I do not consider that, in a 

 general way, roaring or whistling materially affects 

 the breathing of the animal ; and infer such to be 

 the case from the fact that horses as roarers have 

 raced, steeple-chased, and hunted, without evinc- 

 ing peculiar symptoms of distress. For this reason, 

 should we find a horse a simple roarer, but with 

 apparently sound lungs, I do not say such a one 

 should be at once rejected, if the purchaser does 

 not object to the (to me) abhorrent noise. In fact, 

 there are many roarers that though they do make 

 a very considerable noise on being galloped, will 

 trot alonor eight or nine miles an hour without, in 

 this particular, being objectionable. Such a horse, 

 therefore, for such purposes as do not call forth 

 the objectionable qualities of his infirmity, may 

 safely be purchased ; for the only drawback, be- 

 yond what is found at the time of purchase, is, 

 that he may grow worse. This is, however, by 

 no means to be feared as a certain result ; in fact, 

 there are causes of roaring that it is quite possible 



