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had not navicular disease. The coffin-bone of the horse in question was 
not diseased. The horse had not had spavin, and there was no disease 
of the foot at all. The horse had natural-formed flat feet and thin soles, 
which are more liable to bruise than when the sole is thicker. Had 
Mr. Kent’s description of the diseases of the horse been correct, it 
would have been very lame. A horse with such diseases could not 
perform the ordinary work. The thickening of the integument could 
not be taken by a professional man for anything else. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Edlin—Sidebones and ossification of car¬ 
tilages are different names, but both mean the same thing. They are 
terms expressive of the same disease in the same state of disease. 
When complete, it can be called ossified cartilages. .When ossification 
is complete, the sidebones can be felt. It is sometimes difficult to dis¬ 
cover when ossification has commenced, and even in its progressive 
formation it is difficult to detect. The inflammation which Mr. Brown 
spoke of did not exist when I examined the horse, on the 27th of May 
last. I noticed the thickening of the integument. That thickening of 
the integument might not develop itself so as to exhibit disease in the 
horse. I put the horse through his paces. The horse was not a high 
stepping one, but it did not go lame, it went sound; he went as a 
horse naturally would with these feet. 
Re-examined by Mr. Jones—Horses with these formed feet never 
step out as other horses do. If ossification had set in 1 should call it 
sidebones. 
Herbert Horatio Heraud, examined by Mr. Jones—I am a veterinary 
surgeon, residing at Caine. I have been in practice twelve years. I 
attend to the Marquis of Lansdowne’s stables. On the 21st of April 
last I examined the horse at Thingley, at Mr. Neale’s. My attention 
was drawn to the feet. I very particularly examined him. I found it 
had not had sidebones, nor any symptoms of them. When a horse has 
sidebones there is lameness in its incipient state. I tried the horse in his 
paces on that day; it was perfectly sound. Suppose the disease to be in 
existence three or four months, l should have discovered it on the ldth 
of April last. If it had then had sidebones it must have flinched when 
I pressed the foot. I examined the hocks, which were perfectly sound. 
It had coarse, bony hocks. (At this stage of the evidence, witness, 
instead of confining himself to his statements, attempted to make a 
speech, when, at the suggestion of Mr. Edlin, his honour intervened, 
and cautioned Mr. Heraud against making too oratorical a display.) 
Examination continued—I believe it is impossible for a flat-footed 
horse to have navicular disease. If the horse had the complication of 
diseases which had been described by Mr. Kent, it would have been 
dead from symptomatic fever some months ago. In all my experience 
I never found a horse with such a complication of diseases. I believe 
the horse is perfectly sound. 
William Scott , of Chippenham, veterinary surgeon, examined by Mr. 
Jones—The horse in question has a large, thin foot, which is generally 
supposed to be a weak foot. I carefully examined the off fore foot, 
which is perfectly sound. I examined his hocks, which were also 
sound. I have once or twice seen the horse since my examination. 
The horse had no disease in the feet when I saw it last Saturday. 
There was not then any ossification in the cartilages. If the horse had 
had disease of sidebones three or four months previous to March last, 
it could not have escaped my attention on Saturday last. I was in 
court when Mr, Kent was examined, and heard his description of the 
diseases. Neither of them exists. A horse with such diseases could 
not perform ordinary work. I agree with Mr. Heraud about sympto- 
