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coronets, &c. and finally, I believe, he fired him from his hoofs 
up to his knees; he was then turned out for six months, and 
came up worse than when he went out. The proprietor became 
quite tired of having him farriered any longer, and was deter¬ 
mined to sell him for what he would fetch. 
Mr. Robert Wilding, a friend of mine, related the case, and 
wished my opinion respecting the operation of unnerving: I ad¬ 
vised him to buy the horse, which he did for £12, and I ope¬ 
rated upon both legs below the fetlock joint: the horse got up 
quite sound, and Mr. Wilding, who is a very superior horseman, 
rode him two seasons with the Shropshire hounds, and whenever 
they had a run he was always in front. At the end of one very 
long run, Mr. Wilding so far distinguished himself, that a gen¬ 
tleman offered 200 guineas for him ; but Mr. Wilding would not 
warrant him sound, consequently the bargain was not concluded. 
He was afterwards sold as a nerved horse to a Mr. Gittins, for 
very little short of 60 guineas, who rode him two years with 
Sir Richard Puleston’s hounds; and the last time I heard of 
him was, when a gentleman told me he saw Mr. Gittins ride 
him over a very high park fence, near Sundorn Castle. He had 
then been operated upon four years, and went perfectly sound. 
This horse was considered one of the most brilliant leapers that 
was ever put to a fence. 
CASE III. 
Was a large brown horse, seven years old, belonging to a medi¬ 
cal gentleman at Wenlock, in this county. This horse had very 
good feet, although rather strong. In the summer, which 
was a very hot one, he became lame on the near fore leg, and 
every means were taken to discover the cause of his lameness : 
he was bled in the toe; a seton passed through the frog; blistered 
on the coronet; had several doses of aloes, & c. all to no purpose: 
he was then turned to grass for several months, and, like the 
chesnut horse, came up worse than when he went out. Mr. Hum¬ 
phreys, a grocer of this town, then bought him for £10, and 
I operated upon him below the fetlock joint: he got up quite 
sound, and the wounds were so very nicely healed, that no one 
could discover he had been unnerved. Mr. Humphreys, a short 
time after, made an exchange with a gentleman for ahorse which 
he (Mr. Humphreys) sold for £70. The gentleman, I believe, 
drives the horse which I unnerved in his gig up to this day, per¬ 
fectly sound. The other six Cases all did remarkably well, and 
worked for several years. 
