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APPENDIX. 



HINTS TO BREEDERS AND PROPRIETORS OF YOUNG 

 HORSES DESIGNED FOR THE TURF. 



In the foregoing pages I liave endeavoured to 

 shew that the common method of shoeing, in con- 

 junction with other causes, inevitably deprives the 

 foot of the horse, in some decree, of its elasticity 

 (to say nothing of lameness, which sooner or later 

 supervenes), inducing a condition of the foot which 

 approaches to disease, but yet so insidious in its 

 nature as to defy the competent veterinarian to 

 pronounce the animal lame. — Vide Paper II, p. 26. 



Now, what I have hitherto advanced has relation 

 to the fore feet, the consummation of the evil, viz. 

 lameness, occurring onli/ to the fore feet, as we well 

 know by experience; but yet that the hind feet enjoy 

 perfect immunity I do unhesitatingly deny. It 

 is my present purpose boldly to assert, before the 

 whole sporting world, that notwithstanding the pro- 

 digious combination of circumstances which may 

 have ever conspired to enable the Derby colt to win 

 liis great race, and although the prize may have 

 been boiiie off by one of Nature's master-pieces, 

 urged by ail the " cognoscenti" of Newmarket, 



