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Haunch. The upper thigh of the hind leg of the horse ; 

 situated between the gaskin, or lower thigh, below; and the 

 point of the quarter, above. 



Head. The head of a horse, by aside view, is divided 

 from the neck by a line proceeding from the back of the ear, 

 along the rear edge of the lower jaw, to its angle. It embraces 

 the following named regions, or parts, viz. : Ear, poll, fore- 

 head, face, nostrils, muzzle, mouth, cheek, eye, jowl, lower jaw, 

 inter-maxillary space. 



Head, Lead of the. In speeding, the horse should be 

 allowed to follow its instinct in fixing the position of the head 

 — there can be no safer or more successful rule in training than 

 this ; indeed, it is one of the golden rules in horse discipline. 



Headstall. The name given to the leather work of the 

 upper part of a bridle when in collected form, and to which the 

 snaffle or bit and bridoon is attached. 



Heat. An act requiring intense and uninterrupted effort ; 

 great activity ; as to do a thing at a heat ; one part of a race, 

 or once around a course in a race. In trotting races, heats 

 best three in five ; a horse not winning a heat in the first five 

 trotted cannot start in the sixth iinless he shall have made a 

 dead heat. In running races of heats best two in three, a horse 

 that actually wins two heats, or distances the field, wins the 

 race ; and a horse running in two consecutive heats, without 

 winning, or running a dead heat, cannot again start in the 

 race. In a running race of heats best three in five, a horse 

 that wins three heats, or distances the field, wins the race ; and 

 a horse running in any three consecutive heats, without win- 

 ning, or running a dead heat, is not allowed to again start in 

 the race. 



Heaves. Broken wind ; asthma ; a disease of the organs 

 of breathing caused by the rupture of the air cells, which pre- 

 vents the animal from expelling air from the lungs without a 

 double effort. A legal unsoundness. 



Hedge. To protect by betting on both sides ; or, in other 

 words, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other 

 side, in order to guard one's self against loss w^hatever the 

 result may be. 



No bet is good till it is well liedged.— Blue Ribbon of the Turf, Louis 

 Henry Curzon. 



Heels. The posterior part of the horse's foot, formed by 

 the angles of inflection of the extremities of the hind portion 

 of the hoof. 



Heels of the Shoe. The rear part of the web or plate 

 of the shoe protecting the heels of the foot. 



