28 EXAMINATION OF HORSES AS TO SOUNDNESS 



portion of the concussion or jar as the horse 

 brings his foot to the ground. A ragged, badly 

 developed, thrushy frog is to be avoided, for 

 here the jar to the foot is not lessened, as it was 

 intended it should be by Nature ; and the con- 

 sequence is the horse is prone to all the ills of 

 concussion, such as laminitis, or fever, in the 

 feet, ring-bones, side-bones, sandcracks, etc. 



The examination of the fore-limb being now 

 concluded, we proceed to the withers and back. 



