Part 22

=Sand-Crack.=—A fissure of the wall of the hoof at the toe.

=Scalper.=—A horse dealer who handles cheap or questionable horses. He may have no regular stable or business headquarters.

=Scalping.=—Striking front of hind coronet, pastern or cannon against front toe when speeding.

=Seam in Foot.=—Blemish, old scar, or healed crack in the hoof wall.

=Seedy-Toe.=—Separation between wall and sensitive laminæ of hoof at toe, the space being filled with white, dry, powdery horn; sometimes with pus; “toe clip” is a common cause.

=Serpentine.=—A horse that extends and withdraws his tongue as a serpent.

=Serviceably Sound.=—See No. 2, Auction Rules. The term is incorrect, as a horse is either sound or unsound.

=Shadow Jumper.=—Nervous, skittish; afraid of his own shadow.

=Shell-Bone.=—Side-bone.

=Shipping Fever.=—Influenza contracted on cars, or it may be acclimation fever.

=Shaky in Stall.=—A shiverer.

=Shiverer.=—Afflicted with chorea (St. Vitus’ dance).

=Shoe Boil.=—A serious abscess, or open pus discharging sore or tumor of the point of the elbow. Caused by the horse bruising the elbow upon the floor, not necessarily upon the heel of a shoe, as commonly supposed.

=Short Leet.=—The best horse selected by the judges from a number of competing animals in the show ring, and among which the prizes are distributed after further examination.

=Sickle Hock.=—See curby-formed hock.

=Side-Bone.=—A lateral cartilage of foot at quarter, turned to bone (ossified).

=Side Wheeler.=—A pacer.

=Siffon.=—Jewish horse-dealers’ word (spelling in doubt) meaning to run in bids on a greenhorn to boost price of horse.

=Slab-Sided.=—Flat-ribbed.

=Smokes His Pipe.=—Lip torn where bridle bit rests.

=Smoky Eye.=—“A little smoky.” Eye cloudy, whitish, pearly in color, or opaque.

=Smooth Mouth.=—Cups or marks worn off incisor teeth, indicating great age.

=Spavin.=—Bony enlargement or exostosis upon lower, inner, front aspect of hock joint.

=Speck in Eye.=—A small scar of spot, not on pupil, and as a rule, not impairing vision.

=Speedy Cutting.=—Striking the inside of the hind cannon against the front foot as the hind is brought forward and passes the front foot on the outside in over-reaching when the horse is speeding.

=Splay-Footed.=—“Nigger-heeled.”

=Splint.=—A bony growth on course of splint-bone on either side of cannon-bone below the knee.

=Split Hoof.=—Quarter-crack. Sand-crack.