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To clarify--stocking up is indeed different than a wind puff. An new 
and acute wind puff is of concern because it is almost always trauma based.
 In stocking up, the fluid isn't trapped, but rather is lingering in 
and around the tendon compartment and
held there by gravity (called dependent edema) and will be carried away 
with exercise as long as there is nothing else wrong in that leg.
As Truman mentions, "old and cold" wind puffs are usually permanent and 
of little concern if the horse has proven that they aren't made worse
with work. It's the new wind puffs that I was saying should be paid 
close attention to until they are either gone or reason they have 
appeared is
understood and treated successfully. Even so, if I had a choice between 
two horses that were identical in all ways--ability, soundness, talent, 
and tolerance
for work--but one had wind puffs and the other didn't, I would choose 
the one without the wind puffs.   Bruce

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