. The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . recjuireto be adopted. Young horses predisposed to curb should be carefully conditionedunder slow exercise before being put to work. In the laudable endeavour to restrict the spread of hereditary diseasesin horses, the Royal Commission of Horse-breeding drew up a scheduleof diseases, the existence of any one of which should discjualify a thorough-bred sire fiom receiving a premium. The list of discpialifying ailmentsincluded spavin, ring-bone, side-bone, diseases of the feet, cataract,
. The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . recjuireto be adopted. Young horses predisposed to curb should be carefully conditionedunder slow exercise before being put to work. In the laudable endeavour to restrict the spread of hereditary diseasesin horses, the Royal Commission of Horse-breeding drew up a scheduleof diseases, the existence of any one of which should discjualify a thorough-bred sire fiom receiving a premium. The list of discpialifying ailmentsincluded spavin, ring-bone, side-bone, diseases of the feet, cataract, roar-ing, and whistling, but curb, one of the most hereditary of horse ciiseases,had no place in it. It was not surprising, therefore, to find that a largepercentage of the rejections at a recent show of the Hunters ImprovementSociety were on account of curbs. It is no excuse for such a course tosay, as has been said by some, that the lameness resulting from thisdisease sooner or later passes away, since the fact remains that it con-stitutes unsoundness, and largely depreciates the value of its 1, Good hock with curb. _. 370.—Curb2. Bad hock without curb. 3, Bad hock with curb. BOWHD KNEFS 303 BOWED KXEE8 Tliis atibctioii is very common in foals at the time of l)iitli, and an extent does it occasionally exist, that the breeder is doubtful its towhether the young animal will ever become upright upon his legs. How-ever, it is often tlie case that young foals, more or less malformed in thisdirection, become quite straight upon their limbs as time goes on; indeed,such a formation is generally more pleasing to the breeder, if not presentin too great a degree, than that called calf-kneed, a position the reverse ofthe one we have just described. Id the latter case the anterior part of thefore-leg, in a line from above downwards, is concave, and the posterior partis convex; and while in knees bowed forward the owner looks for dailyimprovement in the form of his foa
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