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to one side at a pretty sharp angle, compelling him to change 

 his gait, and the new gait, (trot), he would keep for a few steps. 

 As soon as he came back to the pace I would swing him off 

 sideways again. Of course this was virtually driving around 

 in a small circle until he began to go a considerable distance 

 trotting. At each time he would remain at the trot a little 

 longer, and one day struck a trot and kept it up for a quarter 

 of a mile." 



Cooliiig"-oiit ; Cooling Off. The walking exercise, 

 light blanketing and personal care given to a horse after one 

 heat, in order to fit him for the following heat. 



Cooling'-out Ground. The enclosed area between the 

 stables and track, where horses are led to halter for cooling 

 out between Jieats. 



Coper. [Eng.] A broker in old horses ; a dishonest 

 horse dealer ; a horse sharp. 



Corded-up. A condition of the muscles of the back 

 and loins very liable to follow a severe heat, in which they 

 become distended, knotted, or partially paralyzed, requiring 

 very careful attention and the application of hot lotions to 

 bring them to their normal condition. 



Corker. A rush; a hard heat; a fast brush; a heat 

 that has required hard work to win ; as " four corking heats ; " 

 "two corking miles." 



Corner Teetli. The outermost of the front teeth, or 

 incisors ; those next to the tusks. 



Coronet. The comparatively soft, but sharply defined 

 line, or band, w^hich runs round the foot, highest in front and 

 becoming lower behind, immediately above the hoof, and 

 which secretes the horn by which the wall of the hoof is 

 formed. The coronet, or coronary bone, is the short, cube- 

 shaped bone, between the coffin bone and the small cannon 

 bone. 



Corns proceed from an injury to the living horn of the 

 foot, more commonly in the inner heel, and found, above all, 

 in flat feet with low, weak heels. From the fact that they 

 can seldom be cured they render a horse unsound. 



Cough. However simple and however recent in origin a 

 cough may be, while it lasts the horse is unsound. 



Counting- The Horseshoes. A custom founded upon 

 the fact that Walter Le Brun, a London farrier, was granted 

 a plot of land in the Strand, London, as early as 1235, upon 

 which to set up a forge. For this privilege he was to render to 



