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knowledge, “what more are we able to do than is done?” 
The science of medicine is every day advancing, and nothing 
tends to its advancement more than practical investigations 
into the causes and nature of disease. Let then the proffered 
reward of £100 be offered to the man who shall compose the 
best and most practical essay on roaring, as Mr. Goodwin 
has suggested, and this will render it by no means impro- 
bable that such additions to our present knowledge of roaring, 
and such improvements in our present treatment of it, may 
result, as shall tend, if not absolutely to the cure of roaring, 
yet to such amelioration in the management of young racers 
as shall render them less liable to take such disease, and 
make the removal of it an easier and more certain matter 
when complaints leading to it do set in. 
Mr. Goodwin’s Letter on the subject is addressed to the 
editor of ‘ Bell’s Life,' and runs as follows : — 
“ The offer, advertised in the 6 Racing Calendar,’ for the 
cure of roaring, has certainly been productive of some good, 
inasmuch as it has been the means already of directing atten- 
tion to this important subject. The offer, in its present shape, 
is not likely to realise the intentions of the nobleman who 
made it, but it is my belief that, were a prize to be offered for 
the best treatise upon the nature, cause, and treatment of 
this malady, some valuable information would be elicited. 
Let the competing essays be subjected to the ordeal of the 
Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and I 
have no doubt that in a thus more tangible form we shall 
find, if not a cure, some good practical results. Among the 
contributions to which you have latterly given insertion, I 
perceive my name mentioned by “Eques,” and however 
flattering his remarks, I am unwilling that the impression 
which his quotation is calculated to make should be taken for 
an admission on my part that roaring is not hereditary. We 
have before us such a remarkable case, one which, in this 
instance, so distinctly proves that it is hereditary , and this is 
so well known to all turfmen, that I feel no delicacy in giving 
the names of Bowstring, Iris, and Longbow, all the produce 
of one mare, Miss Bowe, yet not by one sire ; for Bowstring 
was got by Amurath, the other two by Ithuriel, first-class 
race-horses, and whose infirmity as roarers is conclusive upon 
this point. At the same time I am aware that many instances 
exist of stallions either being or supposed to be roarers, whose 
stock are wholly free from any symptom of their sire’s dis- 
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