Breaking a leg

[wsanto]

Okay--here is the full extent of Thomas Davis' description of the horses within his full statement as published in "The Evidence." (as they say--emphasis mine)

"One of the horses was a small bay mare in excellent trim, with a piece of skin off on the inside of the left foreleg about as big as a silver quarter. I do not whether there was a soar {sic] on her head or not. The other was a roan horse, the pretty racker with a large scar just back of the saddle."

The bay mare was not lame but in "excellent trim". Thomas Davis did not indicate in any way that this horse had a left shoulder injury in this particular statement. The only injury he reported was but a very small piece of skin missing from the inside portion of her left front leg.

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Hopefully Mr. Kauffman has access to other statement(s) made by Thomas Davis that includes the "badly swollen left shoulder" injury. If not, in my opinion, he completely mischaracterized Davis' statement to suit his theory.