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the bog-spavin. My man, in the presence of Mr. Walker, jumped him per- 
haps over forty fences. I told him if it was not for the fired hocks I would 
not take £200 for him. The trial of the horse lasted fully two hours, and 
there was no sign of lameness, Mr. Walker never found fault with the 
horse, either then or in the hunting field afterwards. The horse was per- 
fectly sound. Mr. Walker sent me word that he would bring an action at 
law, and would bring it before a higher tribunal, and not before a paltry 
county court. When Mr. Maw came over to Scrooby he tried him ; but he 
had not then been fired. After being fired the horse rested fully eight 
weeks. He was fired in the middle of June. He was then as sound as a 
bell and never was lame. — Cross-examined : The firing was to take away the 
enlargement of the hock, and it did so. 
Mr. John Whincup called : I am stud-groom to the Earl of Scarborough, 
and have been for the last twelve years ; previous to that I was stud-groom 
and trainer to Lord Maidstone, and have had great experience in horses. 
I was requested by my master, the Earl of Scarborough, to look at a chesnut 
horse which would be brought to Tickhill Castle by Mr. Neale. I did so, 
and on examining him found him to be as sound as a roach. If ahorse had 
put up a bog-spavin, and was fired and got better, he would be a sound 
horse. In October, I saw Mr. Neale upon him at Rossington, and he ap- 
peared to me to be sound. 
Mr. George Mather deposed : I am a veterinary surgeon residing at Don- 
caster. I remember being called upon by Mr. Neale to look at a horse with 
a bog-spavin; if a bog-spavin is fired properly, I then consider a horse 
would be sound again. I saw the horse in March or April, 1857. 
Mr. Chamberlain : I am a veterinary surgeon practising at Bawtry, and 
have known the horse in question ever since he was purchased by Mr. Neale. 
I remember the horse putting up a bog-spavin, and I performed the opera- 
tion of firing him. I did not fire him more in one place than another. I 
attended him until he got better, and he became quite sound. I fired 
him for bog-spavin. In my opinion he was sound at the time he was sold 
to Mr. Walker. He never was lame. A curb may be caused at any time by 
a sprain. I have seen Mr. Walker out hunting upon the horse, when I saw 
nothing the matter with him. On the 24th of December I saw the horse 
in possession of Mr. Walker, and in my opinion the lameness did not pro- 
ceed from bog-spavin. He has no bog-spavin now. He is lame from curb* 
Mr. Walker told me the horse had corns, but I did not examine it for them. 
The curb was evidently a recent one, and I told Mr. Neale so. 
Mr. Richard Reynolds called : I am a veterinary surgeon residing at 
Mansfield. I examined this horse on the 2d of January, at the time of sale, 
and found he had a curb, but certainly not bog-spavin. I found he had a corn 
on one foot. He was lame then of curb. Corns may be brought on at any 
moment, and I believe that neither the curb nor the corn had been of long 
standing. 
Mr. Cartledge sworn : I am a veterinary surgeon practising at Sheffield, 
and was desired by Mr. Neale to examine this horse. I went on Tuesday 
last, and saw him in Mr. Walker’s stable. The horse had a curb on his near 
hock — the result of a recent sprain. I think no man of judgment could 
have failed to have seen that curb on the first of November, if it existed 
then. I also examined the horse for corns, and found a small one on the 
near forefoot, and I think if I had had convenience I could have pared it 
away. Such a corn might have formed in a fortnight or three weeks. Corns 
are merely a crush of the foot, whereby extravasated blood becomes lodged 
between the hard and the sensible part of the foot. One corn on one foot 
had disappeared when I examined the foot. I think also that when a bog- 
spavin disappears by firing, the horse may be called sound as far as that 
