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Poll evil
- Unsoundness
- Uncommon
- Serious
- Poll ( area behind horses ear)becomes infected and inflamed
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Blindness
- Unsoundness
- Common
- Serious
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Fistulous withers
- Unsoundness
- Uncommon
- Serious
- Withers (ridge between shoulder bones) becomes infected and inflamed
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Sweeney
- Blemish
- Uncommon
- Seldom causes lameness
- Atrophy of shoulder muscles
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Shoe boil
- Blemish
- Uncommon
- Seldom causes lameness
- Inflammation of bursa sac in elbow
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Splints
- Blemish
- Common
- Seldom causes lameness
- Bony swelling on inside of front leg between the splint and cannon bone or on the splint bone
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Bowed tendons
- Unsoundness
- Common
- Serious
- Causes lameness
- Tendinitis in usually flexor tendons (front legs)
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Wind puffs
- Blemish
- Seldom causes lameness
- Blemishes on the fetlock
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Ringbone
- Unsoundness
- Common
- Serious
- Causes lameness
- Bone growth in the pastern or coffin joint
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Sidebone
- Blemish
- Common
- Seldom causes lameness
- Hereditary predisposition
- Nutrition possibly a factor
- Ossification of the collateral cartilages of the coffin bone, found protruding above coronary band
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Laminitis
- Unsoundness
- Common
- Serious
- Causes lameness
- Nutrition a possible factor
- Inflammation of the tissues that bond the hoof wall to the coffin bone
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Navicular disease
- Unsoundness
- Common
- Serious
- Causes lameness
- Nutrition possibly a factor
- Inflammation of the navicular bone and surrounding tissues (usually in forelimb)
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Bog spavin
- Blemish
- Common
- Seldom causes lameness
- Fluid swelling of the joints in the hock (hindlimb)
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Bone spavin
- Unsoundness
- Uncommon
- Causes lameness
- Hereditary predisposition
- Nutrition possibly a factor
- Bony growth within the lower hock joint (hindlimb)
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Thoroughpin
- Blemish
- Uncommon
- Seldom causes lameness
- Fluid filled swelling on the medial and lateral sides above the hock
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Curb
- Blemish
- Uncommon
- Seldom causes lameness
- Hereditary predisposition
- Soft tissue injuries of the distal plantar hock region
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Stringhalt
- Unsoundness
- Uncommon
- Serious
- Causes lameness
- Sudden flexing of one or both hindlimbs
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Heaves
- Unsoundness
- Uncommon
- Serious
- Nutrition possibly a factor
- Chronic airway obstruction condition
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Roaring
- Unsoundness
- Uncommon
- Serious
- Cartilage on the left side of the throat cant keep out of the airway
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Hernia
- Unsoundness
- Uncommon
- Serious
- Hereditary predisposition
- Tear in the body wall that allows internal organs to push through
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Sore back
- Unsoundness
- Common
- Serious
- Seldom causes lameness
- Nutrition possibly a factory
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