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Stocking. White, reaching down to the coronet on the 

 leg of a dark colored horse, and which comes up as high as the 

 knee or hock, is termed a '< stocking." When the white mark- 

 ing is shorter than this, it is called a sock. 



Stone. [Eng.] The English imperial standard weight 

 of fourteen pounds avoirdupois. The weight carried by horses 

 in races is always reckoned as such a immber of stone, and so 

 many pounds ; as, eight stone, twelve pounds. 



Stonelieiig"e. The nom de plume or pen name of John H. 

 Walsh, F. R. C. 8., known throughout England, Australia and 

 America, as a writer on horsemanship and field sports. Born 

 in 1810 ; died February 12, 1888. Edited the London Field 

 from 1857 till his death; and was an industrious and volumi- 

 nous writer. With a wide range of knowledge he combined 

 thoroughness and accuracy, and his style is smooth and flow- 

 ing. His treatise on " The Horse in Stable and Field," is one 

 of the best books in the entire range of English and American 

 horse literature. 



Stop. To quit in a race. 



Stops. On a bridle, used with reins which have buckles, 

 to prevent the martingale rings catching on the buckles. 



Stopping". Packing or filling for the horse's feet. 



Before tlie horse is i>iit away after work, the feet should be carefully 

 oleaued and washed out, and stopped up with clay. We avoid, in 

 all eases, the use of oils on the hoof, as oil will spoil any hoof, mak- 

 ing it brittle. The cooling, cleansing, and moistening effect of 

 washing is all that, is necessary to keep a healthy hoof in good con- 

 dition. — Training the Trotting Horse, Charles Marvin. 



Strag"g:ling- Start. A poor send off. " The field got the 

 word with many of the horses straggling in the rear." 



Straig"lit-away. A straight course ; the long, straight 

 stretch of a course, like the three-fourths mile straight, or the 

 2,450 feet home stretch of Morris Park, N. Y. On this straight 

 the famous horse El Rio Rey ran three-quarters of a mile in 

 1:11 ; and on the mile straight-a^vay at Monmouth Park, N. J., 

 the mighty Salvator ran the mile August 28, 1890, in 1:35^. 



Strang'les, and bastard or false strangles, are, until cured, 

 an unsoundness. 



Stretch. One of the two straight sides of a course, as 

 distinguished from the turns or ends. 



Stride. The distance from the foot-print of any one leg 

 to the foot-print of the same leg, when it comes next to the 

 ground ; or it may be described as the action of the limbs while 

 that distance is being covered. The average stride of the fast 

 gallop, or that of the race-horse at speed is about twenty-four 



