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very particular as to liis diet, and kept him on very short allow- 
ance of hay ; his corn always wetted ; and a certain daily portion 
of carrots. He was likewise constantly ridden out with his grey- 
hounds, which kept his pipes free. But the most extraordinary 
case of broken-wind I ever met with, and one which shewed the 
efficacy of constant work in such cases, was a grey mare I once 
drove in the Caermarthen (Irish) mail. She went, at wheel, 
from Llandovery to Trecastle, ten miles, in an hour and five 
minutes, apparently no more distressed as to her powers than the 
other horses ; but the appearance of her nostrils shewed that she 
suffered, and that her lungs were in a bad state. The compara- 
tive ease with which this mare did her work I consider a good 
illustration of that passage in your 31st Lecture on Chest Affec- 
tions, under the head of Exercise . It was a decidedly bad 
case, for there was considerable working of the flanks in this 
mare when put to the coach — ‘that is, before she started from the 
door. She did her work in the night, however, which was much 
in her favour. 
You say, in the lecture above alluded to, that thick wind de- 
pends on conformation. Nothing is more clear than this to all 
hunting men. I have heard that celebrated horseman over a 
country, Mr. Robert Canning, say, he has oftentimes been car- 
ried well by narrow horses, when the chest has been very deep ; 
but never by those whose chests were not deep, however broad 
they might have been. Indeed, his famous horse. Favourite, 
which he rode nine seasons, was a very narrow horse, but bril- 
liant over any country with his weight — 17 stone. 
I have had some experience of thick-winded horses, but not 
much, having generally endeavoured to ascertain this point be- 
fore purchase. I rode a thick-winded mare, which I purchased 
of Dockery, the Jockey, for four seasons. She was naturally a 
slow mare, though useful to me on my tours, from her being up 
to all descriptions of fences. She could, however, go for an 
hour at nearly the top of her speed, and jump a big fence at the 
end of it, 'provided she was properly prepared . I always had the 
muzzle put on her at ten or eleven o’clock of the night before 
hunting, because she would eat her litter after she had eaten her 
hay ; and once, when it was omitted by a careless helper, she 
nearly killed me at a small fence, with Mr. George Wyndham’s 
hounds. Then, again, I served a long apprenticeship to some- 
thing nearly allied to thick wind, for I had a horse fifteen years 
in my stable, during twelve of which he was affected with chro- 
nic cough. He always coughed after his water, and occasionally 
at other times ; but we found him more or less given to do so in 
proportion to the clean or foul state of his body. After a dose 
