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Mr. Youatt, who had never seen the horse, was called on to speak 
of the nature of spavin, and which he affirmed to be, and during 
the life of the animal, unsoundness. 
On the faith of Messrs. Home and Spooner’s opinion the horse 
was tendered to Sheward, and the return of the money demanded. 
This being refused on the ground that it was nothing but a splent 
which produced the lameness, and for which he was not answerable, 
as it might occur without warning to the soundest horse, he was 
sent to Tattersall’s, and sold. He was re-purchased by Mr. 
Sheward, and immediately committed to the care of Mr. Mavor. 
Mr. Mavor states that he had examined the horse before he was 
sold to Captain Martin — that the cartilages and coronets were per- 
fectly good. He was sent to him for treatment on the 3d of Au- 
gust, he was very lame on the left fore-leg, but it was from recent 
splent, and that he traced the lameness to this splent, and that alone ; 
that there was no ossification of the coronet, for he examined him 
particularly on this point, and they were the most elastic pliable 
cartilages he ever saw in his life. 
There was a slighl malformation on the near hock, but it did not 
amount to disease, and did not interfere with the action of the joint 
in the slightest degree. It was on the external surface of one of 
the small bones of the hock, and had nothing to do with the action 
or use of the joint. A preparation was shewn him in which there 
was an excrescence of this kind, which he thought must have been 
formed when the bones were young and not consolidated. 
The horse left him on the 20ih of August. He saw him again 
on the 7th of October — there was still a little enlargement on the 
place of splent, but no tenderness, and the horse stepped boldly and 
well. 
Mr. Henderson had examined the horse for purchase. He saw 
him in all his paces,. and much approved of him. He thought no- 
thing of the projection of the cuneiform bones. 
Mr. Boston, who superintended the shoeing, had seen no disease 
of the feet or the coronets. 
Mr. Kerr had seen the horse on the 8th of August. There was 
no disease about the coronets — the lameness proceeded from the 
splent. The enlargement on the inside of the hock had nothing to 
do with the cartilages between the cuneiform bones. 
Mr. Field was present, but not called upon, who would have 
given similar testimony as to the lameness being that of splent, the 
effect of the osselet on the cuneiform bones, and the effect of old 
spavin on the value and usefulness of the horse. 
Our readers will forgive this imperfect summing up of the case. 
There are two or three points about it which should be finally set- 
tled. Is it possible that bony deposition in the place of the lateral 
