Part 17

=A Gravel.=—Suppurating corn. It is not due to gravel.

=A Little Careless.=—Knees bent forward, or sprung.

=A Little Coarse or Full in the Hock.=—Spavin.

=A Little Nappy.=—A little balky, or a dummy.

=A Little Ouchey.=—Founder, or navicular disease.

=A Little Strong in the Mouth.=—A cribber.

=A Little Stamp On.=—Branded.

=A Little Reading on Him.=—Branded.

=A Little Rounding.=—Curb.

=A Hole In.=—There is “a hole in” a horse when he has some defect temporarily non-apparent.

=An Angel.=—A greenhorn buyer who bids on an unsound horse. He usually gets him on his first bid.

=At the Halter.=—“Sold to halter,” or “at the halter” means without guarantee of any kind. The horse likely will be wild, balky, unmanageable or so unsound as to be useless.

=Beefy Hocks.=—Coarse, meaty hocks having too much connective and adipose tissue. The hock should be clean, hard, free from beefiness, puffs and bony growths.

=Bellows to Mend.=—Wind-broken; heaves.

=Bench-Legged.=—Knees bent toward one another.

=Blind-Spavin.=—Occult or hidden spavin among bones composing hock joint.

=Blue Eye.=—Eye showing a bluish or pearly cast, indicating unsoundness and disease which may or may not have caused blindness.

=Bobber or Jig Back.=—Weak loins causing bobbing or wobbling of the hind quarters.

=Boggy in Hocks.=—Distension of the capsular ligament of the hock joint indicated by a large or small, soft, fluctuating, synovia-filled swelling at the front of joint. Such hocks appear dropsical. The condition constitutes bog-spavin, and by some is termed wind-puff or wind-gall.

=Bowed Tendon.=—A thickened, bulging unsoundness of the back tendons (flexors). Caused by an injury.

=Broken Crest.=—Coarse, thick, broken over crest under mane. Seen in stallions. Sometimes used to mean fistulous withers.

=Broken Down.=—Fetlock bending too near ground, or tendency of toe to turn up as a result of injury to the tendons. Cause of acute lameness at time of accident.

=Broken Knees.=—Scarred knees showing results of a fall. May be new or chronic. Especially objectionable in saddlers.

=Buck-Kneed.=—Knees bent forward.

=Buck-Shinned.=—Bulging profile of front of cannon bones.

=Bull Pen.=—A horse auction sale ring.

=Burglar or Robber.=—This is an expression used by “gyp” dealers to denote a good-looking horse with some slight defect which they can remedy temporarily. This horse is sold, the buyer discovers his defect in a short time and brings him back and trades him in or sells him at a reduced price. Such a horse is stock in trade and the “gyps” sell him over and over again, trade him in and make money on him every time.

=Calf-Kneed.=—Opposite of buck-knees. Knees bent backward.