34: LESSONS IN HORSE JUDGING. 



gives rise to a process of ^forwarding the mouth,' 

 as it is called, that is extracting the corner milk 

 nippers of a three year old in order to hasten the 

 arrival of the full mouth that a four year old may 

 pass for a five year old. This is a gross cruelty, 

 on account of the work of a five year old being 

 expected of a horse only four. Should a perma- 

 nent tooth not push straight at the fang of a 

 milk tooth, the latter is pushed on one side, but 

 not pushed out, and so remains by the side of the 

 permanent tooth and may hinder the horse feed- 

 ing to some extent. Such a tooth is then called 

 a *wolf ' tooth. Wolf teeth are oftenest found 

 in front of the front grinders. 



