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roarers, to, is to put them in harness, and compel them to drag 
heavy loadsand I quite agree with him; it being in laborious 
draft in particular that the respiratory powers are called into play. 
To CONCEAL THIS IMPERFECTION, a knavish horse-dealer will, 
when he is shewing you a roarer, take especial care that the horse 
both leaves and approaches you at a gentle pace, and does not 
strike into the gallop until he is removed to too great a distance 
for you to hear the roar. He will likewise, when dismounted, 
intimidate you, if he can, from approaching the animal; in fact, he 
will practise every device rather than suffer you to put the horse 
fairly to the test. 
Does Roaring constitute Unsoundness 1 —This is a point 
on which the same judge (Lord Ellenborough) has delivered two 
opinions; the latter upsetting the former one, and establishing 
roaring, for the time to come, as unsoundness. The first opinion 
was given in 1810. His lordship then said, “ It has been held by • 
very high authority, that roaring is not necessarily unsoundness; 
and I entirely concur in that opinion.” In 1817, his lordship pro¬ 
nounced, in reference to a similar case, that, “if a horse be affected 
by any malady which renders him less serviceable for a perma¬ 
nency, I have no doubt that it is unsoundness. 1 do not go by the 
noise, but by the disorder.” And from that time to the present, 
roaring has been admitted, in court, to be a species of unsoundness. 
M. Hazard, jun., a French veterinarian, has penned the following sensible 
observations on this question:—“ If roaring were an accompaniment of ordi¬ 
nary respiration, the evil would be discoverable at the time of purchase : but 
in consequence of its requiring exertion to elicit it, the purchaser who does 
not put the animal to that test cannot become conscious of its existence. In 
every instance, roaring detracts from the speed and duration of the animal’s 
paces, and consequently depreciates him. Sometimes it renders the horse 
incapable of performing any (fast ?) work at all. A horse is most unquestion¬ 
ably returnable for it.” 
Roarers, though unsound, still serviceable. —We are 
not to imagine that, because a horse is a roarer, he is altogether 
useless. There are many instances of roarers doing hackney work 
very well, and some of them doing their duty as hunters, with 
very little annoyance to their riders or distress to themselves. 
Indeed, to repeat what I said before, I have heard the remark 
more than once, from those who have hunted roarers, that “ the 
faster they go, the less noise they make.” A great deal, however, 
will depend on their condition. When that is hard and good, it is 
quite surprising what a difference it makes in the noise. Roarers 
are most of all objectionable as harness horses. Coach-proprietors 
are so fully impressed with their incapabilities for the purposes 
they recjuire—fast and laborious draft—that, in a general way, 
they refuse to purchase them at any price. The following reminis- 
