Cade. To bring up, or nourish by hand, or ^^ith tender- 

 ness; domesticated. The name of a great stallion by the 

 Godolphin Arabian, out of Roxana; foaled in 1734. He was 

 so called from the fact that he was brought up on cow's milk, 

 his dam dying when he was ten days old. Roxana was by 

 Devonshire Childers, owned by Lord Godolphin. 



Cadence. That motion of the gallop in which the fore 

 feet and hind feet strike the ground with equal force, the 

 neck and tail being perfectly supple. 



Cadg'er. A knavish horse-dealer. 



Calk ; Calkin. A spur projecting downward from the 



horseshoe, serving to prevent slipping. See Shoeing. 



Calks are delrinieiital niuler any eircuinstanoes, and slioiild always be 

 avoided if possible.— Prof. D.D. Slade, Harvard University. 



Canipaig'ning. Taking horses through a circuit, or 

 from one place to another, and entering them for purses at the 

 various races. 



Canker. A stubborn inflammation of the frog, by 

 some attributed to a parasitic fungus. It is an unsoundness. 



Canon Bone. One of the complete metacarpal, or 

 metatarsal bones in the legs of the horse. The former, in the 

 fore leg, extends from the carpus, or so-called knee, to the fet- 

 lock joint; and the latter in the hind leg from the tarsus, or 

 so-called hock, to the fetlock joint. A line dividing the canon 

 from the fetlock is one drawn across the leg immediately 

 above the prominence caused by the fetlock joint. 



Canter. A gait of transition which the trotter assumes 

 temporarily, and in which he gallops on one of his legs, fore 

 or hind, while he continues to trot on the others. 



Canterbury Gallop. The hand-gallop of an ambling 

 horse, commonly called a canter. Said to be derived from the 

 monks riding to Canterbury on easy ambling horses. 



Cantle. The hind part of the saddle. 



Capped Hock. A serious distention of the synovial 

 cavities, or bursse, which are placed between the skin and the 

 bone of the hock, to aid the gliding of the one over the other ; 

 the sprain of the tendon on the point of the hock. Arising 

 from either cause it is an unsoundness. 



