AS TO SOUNDNESS. Yor 
from all enlargements whatever. Should any elongated 
enlargement be encountered you have to determine its 
nature and extent. In horses having long oblique. pas- 
terns, the. strain on these back tendons is very great, 
Sometimes cicatrices on the skin give you at first an im- 
pression of knots on the tendon, but these cicatrices you 
can move from side to side, plainly showing they have no 
connection with the tendon. Should you meet with a 
thickening and filling of the burse of some considerable 
length, depend upon it there has at some time been a 
severe, injury to these parts, and you must reject such a 
one as unsound. ; : 
Next make another sweep with the same parts of your 
hand over the suspensary ligament. The outline of this 
should be very clear, if sound, and the horse be bearing 
his weight on the limb. Xzotty enlargements encountered 
on this in any part of its course indicate previous injury. 
Please notice the difference of the remains of the injury 
upon the tendon and the suspensary ligament. In the 
forme: ..e enlargement is elongated from above downwards, 
in the latter a Avotty enlargement remains. Injuries to 
the suspensary ligament are usually on its lower fourth 
pretty near the sesamoid bones. It, like the tendon, 
has enormous stretching when the horse has long oblique 
pasterns.. The sesamoid bones should claim your at- 
tention simultaneously with the tendon and ligament. 
‘You frequently find them enlarged, which gives the whole 
joint an enlarged appearance, when their duties as main- 
stays of the fetlock joints are made too onerous by long 
