48 



Roaring in Horses. 



TABLE IV. 



Return of Horses sold for Bearing, from 1st January, 1881, to 3lst 

 December, 1887, in the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, and 



Coinmissaridt and Transport Corpx. 



4. Sr.r. 



It lias often been asserted that sex has influence as a pre- 

 disposing cause, and that horses are more hable to the 

 defect than mares. This notion was started by Girard, jun., 

 and is alluded to by Percivall, who writes : " Mares seldom 

 become Roarers, at least in comparison with horses. This 

 is a fact, I believe, too notorious among men of horse 

 experience to admit of doubt, though it is one for which it 

 appears difficult, if not impossible, to assign any satisfac- 

 tory reason. However, as I am informed, so stands the fact." 



