The Hobday procedure involves removal of the horse’s left vocal cord along with two adjacent pouches, to reduce turbulence and noise to improve deep breathing during racing.
[3] He was born on 4 November 1869 in Burton-on-Trent the son of Thomas Hobday, a manager in the Bass Brewery, and his wife, Mary Newbold.
He left school around 1883 and began working in his uncle’s coal merchant business but then decided to apprentice as a veterinary surgeon under Alfred Hodgkins in Hanley Staffordshire.
His proposers were James Cossar Ewart, Sir German Sims Woodhead, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, and John Berry Haycraft.
[5] In the First World War he served as a Major in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps and saw active service in France, Italy and Albania with King Edward's Horse Regiment.