The sportsman's book for India . e spavins. They wereexamined later by different veterinary surgeonsat different times, and all passed sound. What Imean is this : Supposing you are trying to buy ahunter for £2,0, and you are shown a very likelylooking horse, which, if perfectly sound, you couldnot have imagined that Government would haverefused. If, on examination, you find that he isover Government height, or over Governmentage, or has a tendency towards the weak pointthat the Government veterinary surgeon dislikes,be it spavin, insufficiency of bone, or what not, orthat he belongs to the cla
The sportsman's book for India . e spavins. They wereexamined later by different veterinary surgeonsat different times, and all passed sound. What Imean is this : Supposing you are trying to buy ahunter for £2,0, and you are shown a very likelylooking horse, which, if perfectly sound, you couldnot have imagined that Government would haverefused. If, on examination, you find that he isover Government height, or over Governmentage, or has a tendency towards the weak pointthat the Government veterinary surgeon dislikes,be it spavin, insufficiency of bone, or what not, orthat he belongs to the class which have beenimported in excess of Government requirements,then there is no reason why you should nottrust your own opinion with a clear conscience,provided you have a right to have confidencein it. Again, there are certain technical unsound-nesses which, in some cases, may be disregarded,and certain formations which, though not un-soundnesses, should be avoided. As an spavin in a horse seven years or over hardly. PIG-STICKING 317 ever affects him for pig-sticking work, providedhis hock action is good, and curb may be almostdisregarded ; whilst straight pasterns, though notunsoundnesses, should be looked upon as fatal tothe usefulness of a pig-sticker. There are one or two other points to beremembered by a man who has never beforebought raw Australians. It must be borne inmind that many thin horses never recover; thata horse who has been known to have had a badattack of fever after landing remains subject to itand is especially liable to go wrong in the windduring his first hot weather ; that big horses are more liable to become roarers than aresmaller ones; that few Australians are wrongin the wind when landed ; and that blacks andbrowns are the most liable to skin disease, whichrenders the best horse a trouble and an eye-soreduring the hot weather, putting him out of con-dition at the very time when he has all his powerstaxed to the utmost. It must al
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