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at Lincoln, he certainly should not have bought it. A narrow 
foot does not always produce lameness. 
Cross-examined. — He saw the horse again about a month after- 
wards. He examined him more carefully the second time. 
He had the horse out ; the lameness was as bad as ever. The 
legs all round were clean as when born from his mother. It was 
a foot case. 
Re-examined. — The horse was in a nice loose box — the de- 
formity of the foot was plain enough. Would not have bought 
the horse either with or without a warranty : a narrow foot is 
always dangerous — not necessarily unsound, but likely to pro- 
duce unsoundness. 
Knight re-called. — The distance between Lincoln and Baldock 
is about 95 or 96 miles. He ordered the horses to be taken 
about 15 or 16 miles a-day, and never more than 20. Never 
heard that Sheward had discharged the man who took these 
horses from Lincoln to London, for killing a horse of Watmore’s 
in his travelling to London. Heard that he discharged him, 
but never knew on what account. 
J. Lever. — Is a smith, at Baldock. He was called on to 
shoe this horse about the middle of April. He was very lame 
in both fore feet — he thinks from narrowness of the heels and 
weakness of the horn. He was evidently unsound. He moved 
the shoes. The horse continued lame the whole time he was at 
Baldock. He saw him on Tuesday last— he was lame still. 
Cross-examined. — Did not see anything wrong in his hind 
feet — he was not lame all over — he was lame in his fore feet : 
he had the horse led round the yard — he could not go at all. 
Mr. Field, F.S. — Examined this horse on June 25th, in North 
Row. He was lame in both fore-feet — exceedingly so. The 
feet were contracted, and the sole discoloured. He thought the 
disease was in the interior of the foot. It was the navicular dis- 
ease. It arose possibly from the conformation of the feet : the 
basis being unequal to the superstructure, a greater degree 
of jar was produced in the action of the horse, and he thus 
became more liable to diseased feet. A horse with narrow feet 
might be sound or unsound, according to the effect of work on 
his feet. He should think that he had long been lame from the 
same cause ; that there was a tendency to disease at the time of 
sale, and that consequently the horse was unsound. 
Cross-examined. — It was a young horse, five years old. Horses 
with these feet often do their work soundly. There were no ex- 
ternal causes for such lameness, but all the symptoms of navi- 
cular disease. Those horses are subject to navicular disease : 
rest sometimes takes off the excess of lameness, but the disease 
