CANKER — CANTER 



horse. They should never be used in the case of light horses 

 which have to travel fast along hard roads, excepting in 

 cases of emergency during frosty weather, or if the foot 

 is diseased, which may make it necessary to raise the heel 

 temporarily, as the height of the calkins throws the weight 

 of the body towards the toes. Occasionally calkins are on 

 the toes of shoes. (See Frost Nails, Shoeing.) 



Canker is one of the 

 most serious ills that affect 

 the feet of horses. It more 

 often attacks the hind-feet, 

 and can be recognised by 

 its evil smell and a fungoid 

 growth on the soles of the 

 feet, which sometimes spreads 

 to the wall of the hoof As 

 a matter of fact, the hopes of a 

 cure are very slight, and under 

 any circumstances canker is 

 beyond the art of the amateur 

 to treat successfully, so the 

 services of a professional man 

 should be obtained. (See 

 Thrush.) 



A Cankered Foot. 



Cannon Bones. — The large bones which lie between the 

 knee and the fetlock on the fore-leg, and the hock and the 

 fetlock on the hind ones. At the back of the cannon bone 

 are situated the outside and inside splint bones, the back 

 tendons, and the suspensory ligament, which see ; also Bones, 

 Conformation, Splints. 



Canter. — This form of action can scarcely be regarded as 

 a natural one, but rather as a reduced form of gallop. A 

 horse at the canter moves rather obliquely, with the shoulder 

 on the side of his leading leg, which is usually preferred to 

 be the off one, slightly in front of the other. Assuming 



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