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horse was “ Ecce-caudem” (Behold his tail !). I don’t know that he 
has gone by the name of “ Gainan.” Paragon is an aged horse ; 
I have seen him on the roads, but never in a run. 
Mr. William Clay. — I have been groom to plaintiff seventeen 
years ; I fetched the two horses; I saw the plaintiff at the Albion, 
who gave me the horses; I saw Paragon out; the defendant said 
he was a first-rate horse, and that he would want a long prepara- 
tion ; he advised that he should be clipped when he got home ; 1 
paid Mr. Horridge £210 ; he said that if the horse went on well, 
Mr. Atkinson was to give him £10 more at Christmas, and that if 
he received it, he would give me something handsome out of it; 
I took the horses to Leeds by rail ; next morning I took Paragon 
out to exercise ; I walked him up the hill, and detected a quick- 
ness of breathing in the nostrils ; I gave him a canter about a mile ; 
when he pulled up he was breathing again quick. I told Mr. 
Atkinson what I had observed ; Mr. Yates was sent for ; the horse 
was cantered about in his presence ; I saw him examined by Mr. 
Byron ; his wind was the same as when I first saw him ; I did not 
find any quick pulsation at the heart ; I don’t think he was suffering 
from cold, as he had fed well that morning ; I never heard him 
cough ; the young horse was a lame horse. 
Cross-examined : — I never heard him cough, whistle, or roar ; 
motion will accelerate pulsations both in man and horse ; Mr. 
Hobson has got the other horse ; 1 heard he ran fourth at the Don- 
caster steeple chase, but not in a respectable place, he was half a 
mile after the winner ; the papers said it was the quickest run race 
in the season, but I don’t believe all the papers say ; the young 
horse had thrushes. 
Mr. Robert Byron. — I am a veterinary surgeon at Bradford ; I 
have been in practice twenty-one years ; I examined Paragon on 
the 13th October 1846, at plaintiff’s stables; I had him mounted 
and taken quietly round the paddock ; then a little quicker, a slow 
canter ; he was then let out at full length ; he was getting into a 
gallop from a quarter to half a mile ; the result of my examination 
was, that he was suffering from a chronic affection of the air-pas- 
sages of the lungs ; it goes by the name of the thick wind ; the 
symptoms are a shortening of the breathing, much quicker, and in 
distress much more laborious; it is not curable; the flanks indi- 
cated the same symptoms ; the disease impedes the regular circu- 
lation of the blood when in distressing exercise ; the pulsation did 
not decrease as rapidly in this case as if the horse was in sound 
health ; I saw the horse twenty minutes, and it had not subsided ; 
in an ordinary cold the circulation, generally speaking, is not im- 
peded in its progress through the lungs. 
Cross-examined : — It would be a very extraordinary thing if 
