. The Arabian horse, his country and people : with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations. Also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names. or his great engagement, the DealersPlate, in Bombay, for which seventy-three Arabs, all of the same years importation,stood entered. Apparently he walked sound, but a few runs in hand at the trial paceof trotting showed that he was lame on the off fore. A veterinary surgeon of theRoyal Artillery, after several examinations, gave the opinion that he had naviculardisease; t
. The Arabian horse, his country and people : with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations. Also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names. or his great engagement, the DealersPlate, in Bombay, for which seventy-three Arabs, all of the same years importation,stood entered. Apparently he walked sound, but a few runs in hand at the trial paceof trotting showed that he was lame on the off fore. A veterinary surgeon of theRoyal Artillery, after several examinations, gave the opinion that he had naviculardisease; the same sprain of the coffin-joint, in regard to which the first English-man who wrote about it concluded by observing that where one horse happens tobe really lame in the coffin-joint (in which the navicular joint is included), it ismistaken a hundred times in practice. ^ The new light which has been thrown onthis subject by later investigators was, of course, before us. Nevertheless, we werepresumptuous enough to imagine that, even if the navicular disease was not confined 1 No Foot, No Horse, &c. &c., by Jeremiah Bridges, I Hippopathology, vol. iv. p. and Anatomist: 1752. Quoted in Percivalls 1. CO >^ LU F If) oCD n () -a (^ X a: iij > <J otdtr 0 CHAP. III. THE ARABIAN COMPARED WITH OTHER VARIETIES. 183 to Europe, our veterinary adviser might have made a mistake in this particularinstance. Accordingly, the horse was started off to Bombay, a journey then in-volving a march of two hundred miles in order to reach the railway. On our fol-lowing soon afterwards, we had the pleasure of seeing him win from six competitors,on the 4th of February 1862, the then blue ribbon of the Indian turf, as well asanother considerable race of the same meeting. All that time his state remainedjust what it was at the beginning, no better and no worse. A cynic of the turfto whom we showed him said that he was lame in his head ! For once, horse-flesh had fulfilled the prophetic
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