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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
So far as he could judge by the external feeling of the part, this 
was precisely the state of the corresponding bone in this horse. 
It did not interfere with either the action or use of the joint, nor 
had it any tendency to do so. He had not applied any remedy at 
all to the foot. 
Cross-examined. — He thinks that the excrescence may be 
traced back as far as the growth of the bone, or to the period when 
the bones were very young, and not consolidated. It was formed 
as the bone grew. There was no similar excrescence on the other 
leg. It was a morbid growth, and there is no reason why that 
should take place on both legs. Any thing that is different from 
the natural structure of a part may be called a morbid growth. It 
never gave the animal either pain or lameness. The appearance 
of the part, the position of the bone, and his own experience, dis- 
pose him to believe this. There is no difference in the external 
appearance of the skin. 
He tried the horse thoroughly on his own premises. The car- 
tilages were more elastic than any he had ever seen in a horse of 
that age, from the thinness and delicacy of their structure ; they 
were as elastic as they are generally found in a horse at an earlier 
period. On the 7th October he saw the horse again, and carefully 
examined him : there was very little enlargement at the seat of splent, 
and no tenderness. He saw the horse go, and he stepped boldly 
and well. 
This spavin, as it is said to be, was about the thickness of the 
shell of a walnut ; in the centre it might project about a quarter of 
an inch, and terminated in a kind of ridge. It would not affect 
the horse’s going ; it would not have the same appearance as bone 
formed from inflammation. 
By the Judge . — A horse with a formation of this kind is, in 
your opinion, a sound horse I Answer — Decidedly so. 
Mr. A. Henderson, V.S. to the Queen Dowager. — Had seen 
the horse. He was sent by Prince George of Cambridge about 
the middle of May to look at this horse, and see whether he would 
suit his Royal Highness. He saw him in all his paces. His ac- 
tion was exceedingly good. There was nothing to indicate dis- 
ease of the cartilage at the coronet. He recommended that he 
should be purchased, and he would have been so were it not that 
the Colonel objected to having an entire horse in the regiment. 
There was nothing to render him at all unsound. He has seen 
cuneiform bones resembling those just exhibited. He should have 
no objection to them — they did not interfere in the least with the 
paces or value of the horse. 
Cross-examined . — He had him out a quarter of an hour, and 
saw nothing wrong about him. 
