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ENGLISH IDEA OF ROARING HORSES The English Idea of a roarer or thickwinded liorse Is that under favorable weather conditions a great roarer can do great things even to win ¬ ning classic races There is no sort of doubt that Prince Charlie was a bad roarer when he won the Two Thousand Guineas and ran second for the St Leger and throughout his career lie could stay the mile Ormonde too had gone wrong before the 1SSG St ISegcr and so had Donovan in 1SS9 Yct both won their races But making a noise does not always interfere badly with a horse Florizei II made a noise but stayed forever On the other hand the sort of wind affection which follows in ¬ fluenza of the more poisonous sort Is often due to lung trouble as well as atrophy of the larynx la other words a horse may have suffered from septic pneumonia and lost considerable portions of his lungs
