Part 23

=Stag; Staggy.=—Thick and coarse in throat-latch and crest from late castration.

=Stocked Legs.=—“Filled” or dropsical, swollen legs below knees and hocks, the result of a lack of exercise or of sickness.

=Stringy; Stringhalt.=—The hind leg is jerked up at each step in walking and trotting. See Cramp.

=Stifled.=—Patella of stifle out of place. Any disease of the stifle-joint.

=Stump Sucker.=—See Cribber.

=Sweeny.=—Wasting, (atrophy) of the muscles of the shoulder.

=Switcher.=—Tail switching, nervous mare, that may also throw urine.

=Talks to the Driver.=—A roarer.

=Takes a Little Hold.=—A cribber.

=Ten Minutes Short of Work.=—Balky.

=Tied in at Knees.=—Light bone and tendons, making the part markedly constricted under knee.

=Thoroughpin.=—A fluctuating, bursal distension which can be pushed from side to side under the large tendon just above the hock-joint.

=To Bush on Gristle.=—To get a rebate on purchase price from a seller when a side-bone has been found after sale.

=Too Much Daylight Under Him.=—A leggy horse.

=Tongue Loller.=—Tongue hangs from mouth. May be paralyzed.

=Trephined.=—A molar tooth removed by punching downward into mouth by means of an instrument inserted upon tooth root through an orifice cut (trephined) in bone of jaw.

=Trot Cut Short.=—Short stride of fore legs.

=Wall-Eye.=—See Glass-eye.

=Washy Coupled.=—Long and loose in coupling and cut up flank. A poor keeper that tends to scour when warm or tired.

=Weaver.=—A horse that sways and swings backward and forward in stall. The action is akin to that of a caged bear, and the habit is learned by imitation or in idleness. It may indicate a high-strung, nervous temperament and the tendency to it may possibly be transmitted by an affected sire or dam. It seems to arise from the restlessness and longing to escape from “prison life,” or, in short, suggests the “call of the wild.”

=Weed.=—Has heaves.

=Wiggler.=—See Bobber.

=Wind and Work.=—See No. 3, Auction Rules.

=Wind-Galls.=—Puffs or bursal distensions at the sides of the tendons at and above fetlock joints.

=Windy.=—Unsound in wind, a whistler or roarer.

=Whistler.=—A form of roaring in which there is a slight or pronounced whistling noise made in exhaling air.

=Winging.=—Paddling or throwing the feet outward when in motion.

=Worker.=—See No. 4, Auction Rules.