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Brings Home. Riders and drivers carrying weights 

 during a heat must bring home with them the weights wliich 

 have been approved or announced correct. 



Brisket. The lower part of the horse's chest. 



Broken-back. Horses that are broken-backed, or 

 " chinked in the chine," are unsound. 



Broken Wind. Heaves. An unsoundness. 



Bronchitis. Inflammation of the large air tubes within 

 the lungs. An unsoundness. 



Brusli. A fast spurt of speed ; a fast clip ; an effort of 

 extreme movement ; a short work — usually half a mile ; to go 

 a short distance at a high rate of speed. 



It is not well to biaisli the horse always over the same ground, for he 

 will then learn to stop at certain places on the track. — Training the 

 Trotting Horse, Charles Marvin. 



At the end of every mile I would brush him a hundred yards or so, as 

 fast as he could go.— Life with the Trotters, John Splan. 



Brushy Horse. A brushy horse is one capable of a 



high rate of speed for a short distance only ; a quarter horse. 



Arab and J. Q. were two very brushy horses.— Life with the Trotters, 

 John Splau. 



Buck and Fly. [Eq.] The bucking leap is similar to 

 that of a deer, and obtaining its name from thence. The fore 

 legs and hind quarters are gathered in under the body, and 

 the horse springs from all fotir legs at the same moment. The 

 fore legs are tucked close under the body, w^hile the hind 

 limbs are thrown out as far behind as possible. In the flying 

 leap the chief object of the rider is to maintain firm hold with 

 his legs and thighs, and to lean sufficiently backward the 

 instant the spring is felt, remaining in that position until the 

 horse has firmly landed with his hind feet. 



Bucltin^; Buck- jumping". [Eq.] A bucking horse, 

 with the quickness of thought, throws his head down between 

 his fore legs, arches his back at the same instant, bounds in 

 the air with all four feet together, either forward, to one side, 

 or even backward, till he dislodges his rider, breaks the girths, 

 gets through the saddle, or tires himself out. Buckers are 

 generally quiet to mount, but the moment they feel the weight 

 of the rider in the saddle will do their best to throw him. 

 The instant the rider feels the horse arching his back, prepar- 

 atory to bucking, he should pull him quickly round to one 

 side or the other ; or put into the horse's mouth, in addition 

 to the riding bit, a racing snaffle, having a strong rein knotted 

 close to his neck, the slack end to be held in hand. This wall 

 not annoy the horse unless he tries to get his head down, 

 when it will generally be effectual in stopping it. 



