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Helper. A groom; rubber, or assistant; one who helps 

 in the care of a horse at a race, in a subordinate position. 



Helping. A term used to designate any action by an 

 offending horse, rider or drive.-, by which any horse is enabled 

 to come to the wire in an unfair manner, and by which the 

 progress of another horse is impeded. The trotting rules 

 demand that no horse, rider or driver shall jostle, cross, or 

 strike another horse, rider or driver, during a heat ; nor swerve, 

 carry him out, sit down in front of him, or do any other act 

 coming under the head of "helping," under liability of fine, 

 suspension or expulsion. 



Heredity. In breeding, the influence of parents upon 

 their offspring ; the fact or principle of inheritance or the trans- 

 mission of physical and mental characteristics from one gene- 

 ration of ancestors to those following them. 



Hero of Chester. A term universally applied to the 

 great sire, Hambletonian. 



Herod Blood. In the English thoroughbred pedigrees, 

 founded by the Byerly Turk, a celebrated charger owned by 

 Capt. Bverly of Ireland, in the time of King AVilliam's wars, 

 in 1689." 



Hidden Quality. An element of speed in many pedi- 

 grees which trace to unknown sources, but one of uncertainty 

 at best, and in the formation of a family of trotters its evolution 

 must ever be a matter of doubtful experiment. 



Hig"!! Blowing. A term applied to a noisy breathing 

 made by some horses, produced wholly by the action of the 

 nostrils — a distinctly nasal sound, and by no means to be- con- 

 founded with roaring. It is a habit ; not an unsoundness. 



Hig'li-bred. A meaningless term in common use, one 

 applied alike to the trotting horse, the cross-bred Percheron, or 

 any other class, by which people are often deceived at the 

 hands of the horse sharp, regarding the pedigree or value of 

 an animal. It possesses no significance, and has no proper 

 place in the turf vocabulary. 



High- j limp. In the high-jump, photographs sliow that 

 the fore feet first strike the ground after clearing. All high 

 jumpers, as distinguished from broad or hurdle jumpers, land 

 on their fore feet first. At the Madison Square Garden, (Xew 

 York), fair of 1891, the mare Maud got over a fence seven feet 

 high and landed on her fore feet so nearly perpendicular that 

 had not the grooms laid hold of her, she must have completed 

 a somersault. 



High-wheel. The old standard sulky. 



