Singular Operation on a Horse.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 194, 18 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Singular Operation on a Horse.

A short timo ago James L. Goldsmith^ the well-known horseman, arrived at .Detroit to take charge of his crack trotter; Domostic, which has boon there ever since the summer meeting of the Detroit Driving Club, under the card of a veterinary surgoon. The raco iii which Domestic took part was the colobrated 2. 25 trot, which created ; nibro of v sensation than any race ever atartedin that city. It was in this contest that'tho du-r covery was raado of an ullegea; ring said to haro for its objoot obe'of the boldest and most audacious attempts^ to •fix' a race ever conceived in America; The fixors had it arranged to win nearly; 60,000, dollars, it ia said, when Judge Gampan aroused tho threats of the 'gang, by, making d'n attempt to put. the horses through on'their morits. Sovori .hardfought heats werotrotled in the'race.: The last hoat was a serious one for Domoitic. Ho cooled off too quickly, and bofore the raco was finished was sick from tho effects of influonza. ITo was loft at Hamtrack in ; charge of a votorinary surgeon. His complaint developed into laminitis—inflammation of the ' quick' of the forward feet— and has excited the livolioftt attention on tho part of veterinarians. It also resulted in 'the development of a remarkably lioroio spirit in tho affected 'animal. Within ton days suppuration began, and. within three or four,weoks the hoofs of tho forward feet were taken entirely off, leaving the lamina expqsod. Nevor did a hi; man being bear up inorb bravely under intense suffering than did thia plucky HtUo animal. When tho hoofs wore removed he put hie legs out so that the operation might be made.s For four weeks wlijlo Domestic lay in liii stall with his feet tied up in cotton ho would reach out his head to t**ko his _ medicins with surprising intelligence. His attendants rolled him about at their will in attending to'his case without the slightest resistance on his part, ho Booming to understand that it was all for huj own pood The oxtvomo care that ; was taken of; him will bo better understood when it is known that his ownor has a standing offer of lO.OOOdols for him, and would not have taken 20,0Q0dols. before his sickness. It will be many a day yet before he will be able to got about with his usual gait. He can stand but a few minutes each day, and, although tho new hoof 3 are growing satisfactorily, it will bea year before any attempt will bo mado to p'nt him in. training. There is a ridge.of bright now horn extending about one inch below the place of starting, and which promieos in timo to perfectly rop'aco the hoof* that are gone. Below this new horn are tho. hardened, and dry, lamince. Tho case is a very pebuliar bno, inasmuch, that the hoofs' were' removed: with tho, knife. Ordinarily, in cases of this kind, the old hoofs are allowed to be forced, off by the'new-: growing horn, but this always results in deformity of. the feefc.r-'Chicago Times.';