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Blind. A hood so constructed that it will cover the eyes 

 of a horse if he attempts to run ; a piece of horse clothing. 



Blind Bridle. A bridle having blinders or side-pieces 

 to protect the horse's eyes. 



Blinkers. Blinders, blinds, blinkers, winl«3rs; the 



leather flaps placed at the sides of a horse's head, and attached 



to the bridle or headstall, to prevent him from seeing sidewise 



or backward. 



For the bugsry, cart, ear, stage, wagon, truck and general business 

 lioi'se they are unnecessary. In tlie (uiiriage or park horse, wanted 

 for shower fashion, tliey may be used, as tliey admit of crest or 

 ornament, and set off the horse and liarness in fine style. — The 

 Bridle Bits, Col. J. C. Battersby. 



Blindness in a horse constitutes an unsoundness. 



Bl'k. c, bl'k h., or bl'k m., in a summary of a race, pre- 

 ceding the name of the horse, indicate black colt, black horse 

 and black mare, respectively. 



Blood. The use of this word, or term, signifies more or 

 less of pure descent from animals of the English stud-book, or 

 from high-cast Arabs, or the great sires of the American bred 

 trotting and running horse. 



Blood and Bog- Spavins usually produce lameness, 

 and both constitute unsoundness. 



Blood Lines. Explained by the quotation : 



The brood mares at tlie Browne farm are standard under the highest 

 rule that has yet been formulated. They are either the possessors 

 of records of 2:30 or better tliemselves, have produced a 2:30 trotter, 

 or are out of mares to wliich the same distinction attaclies; and 

 when it is said that every one of them— 100 per cent.— comes under 

 tills head, the high standard of the form in regard to blood lines is 

 seen.— Life with the Trotters, John Splan. 



Blow ; Blow Ont. Labored breathing ; to let a horse 

 get his wind after a heat. Occasionally a horse will do it in 

 five minutes, they are good ones ; others will be from a half 

 to three-quarters of an hour. Some horses, those of strong, 

 perfect wind, show no labored respiration after a heat. Charles 

 Marvin says of one he drove : " She cooled out to please me 

 and did not blow in the least." 



Blue Bull. The great pacing sire of trotters ; the phe- 

 nomenon of trotting-horse history. He was bred by Elijah 

 Stone, Stone's Crossing, Johnson County, Indiana. Foaled in 

 Switzerland County, Ind., in 1854. By Pruden's Blue Bull, by 

 Herring's Blue Bull; dam Queen, by Young Selim, second 

 dam unknown. "A plebeian of the plebeians." He w^as chest- 

 nut in color, and stood a trifle over 15 hands high. He died, 

 the property of James Wilson, Rushville, Ind., eluly 11, 1880. 

 He was wonderfully fast at the pacing gait, and even after 



