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stated that lameness would attend the process of ossification, 
but, ossification being completed, the lameness would cease. 
He believed that the horse was not now lame at all, and he 
believed that it never had been. 
John Dawtrey , a veterinary surgeon at Petworth, said, he 
was a Member of the College, and attended Colonel Wynd- 
ham’s stud. He had examined the horse, and found large 
excrescences growing out of the fore feet ; they consisted of 
an abnormal growth of horn. It was not within an inch of the 
growth of the cartilage, and it had nothing to do with the 
cartilage at all. He trotted the horse backward and forward, 
and tried him every way and shape. 
Mr. Kennett. —And it is your deliberate opinion, from a 
minute examination of the horse, that he is “ sound?” 
Witness. —He was as sound as any horse in England when 
I saw him last Monday. 
Mr. Kennett. —The excrescences do not interfere with walk¬ 
ing at all ? 
Witness. —Not at all. If there had been an ossification of 
that size, the horse would have been dead lame. If Mr. Man- 
nington would see the horse with me, I would convince him that 
he is wrong. 
Judge. —I wish he would. 
Witness. —But we have not the horse here. 
Mr. Kennett said he could call five witnesses to swear that 
the horse had never been lame. 
Judge. —The “ Doctors differ.” 
Mr. Kennett. —Unfortunately, that is always so in these 
cases. 
George Ide , carter to defendant, said he had worked the 
horse at all kinds of work. 
Mr. Kennett. —Now, since you have had the horse back— 
for there is no secret in it, as Mr. Griffinhooff sold the horse for 
£47..10s. and bought it again at the sale for £42—did you 
ever see the horse lame ? 
Witness. —He never went lame, either before or since. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Williams. —I have driven him on 
the hard road twelve miles a-day on several successive days. 
David Hazlegrove , a labourer of the defendant, corroborated. 
The horse was not lame last night, 
Daniel Knight , another labourer, corroborated. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Williams. —I never observed any 
thing in particular in the horse’s feet. 
Mr. John Green , late bailiff to defendant, had known the 
horse work on the hard road, and climb steep hills with heavy 
loads; but never thought of his being lame—never dreamed 
of it. 
