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breed to a t^o^ting stallion, we pay great attention to form, action 

 and head. Some iliorouglibretis are more brainy and level headed 

 than others, and from one of these of the right conformation bred 

 to a stallion of great brain and action-controlling jjower, the 

 chances of getting a high class trotter are good. 1 do not claim 

 that you can get trotters as uniformly this way as by breeding 

 from trotting mares, but you can, with the propcily mated sire and 

 dam, get horses of high class by this line of breediaig horses, of 

 great linisli and hard, fine quality. — Training the Trotting Horse, 

 Charles Marvin. 



Tlioroug-h-piii, A sprain of the tendons above the 

 knee and behind the bone of the forearm ; or of the tendon 

 which pUiys over the back of the hock, to the inner side of the 

 bony process which forms its point. When so hirge as to ren- 

 der it likely that lameness will follow, it has been proven an 

 unsoundness. 



Three in Five. A race, or purse, the conditions of 

 which are that three out of five heats must be won by one 

 horse, in order to entitle him to the race and purse, or stake. 



Three-quarter Shoe. A shoe, one side of which is 

 shorter than the other ; so that when on the foot, the wall of 

 the short side, measuring from the heel, is uncovered for a 

 distance of two inches, or a little more. It is used for reliev- 

 ing from pressure the parts of the foot near a corn. 



Three-quarter Speed. A gait used by many of the 



best trainers in working the trotting horse previous to a race ; 



the principle being never to work a horse at high speed, or, 



rather, full speed, that being kept in reserve for the actual 



test of the race. 



Budd Doble taught me that a horse could be put in condition with a 

 great deal less fast work than I had at that time supi^osed possible. 

 His idea Mas to give tliem plenty of what we call three-quarter 

 speed, with longer worlv from a mile to a mile-;uid-a-half, and then 

 two mile heats. — Life with the Trotters. John Splan. 



Three-ride Business. [Eng.] The crack way of 

 running over hurdles, in which just three strides are taken 

 mechanically between each hurdle. 



Three Straig-ht-aways. A term applied to a race 

 won in three straight heats. 



Throat-latch. That part of the crownpiece of the 

 bridle which serves to prevent it from slipping over the horse's 

 head by passing under his throat. 



Thro'tv a Heat. A term used to express that act of a 

 driver or rider, by which a heat is lost at the finish — evidently 

 by design ; to pull up and let an opponent dash by one at the 

 close of a heat ; to give the heat away when it might have 

 been won ; to drop anchor. 



Thrush. An inflammation of the secreting membrane 

 of the frog, with foetid discharge from the cleft. Where 



