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Tray. An adjustable box, fitted to slip into place under 

 the seat of a road cart or sulkyette, for carrying packages, 

 removable when not wanted. 



Tread. The face or surface of a pneumatic tire. 



Tread. A tread is said to have taken place, when the 

 inside of the coronet of one hind foot is struck by the calk of 

 the shoe on the other foot, inflicting a bruised or contused 

 wound. 



Tree. The wood and iron framework of the saddle. 



Trey-team. A team of three horses harnessed abreast. 

 The world's record for best speed with a trey-team, to the close 

 of 1893, is that made by Belle Hamlin, Globe and Justina, at 

 Cleveland, Ohio, July 31, 1891, 2:14. 



Trial Record. A term meaning the time made by a 

 horse in a private trial. It is one, however, having no signif- 

 icance as to the value of a horse, as no trial time is recognized 

 by any competent authority. The race record is the only test 

 of speed that has any value. 



Trio, The Wonderful. The three horses that have 

 exercised the greatest influence upon the race of English thor- 

 oughbreds, viz : The Byerly Turk ; the Darley Arabian, and 

 the Godolphin Arabian. 



Trii>ping". A habit, generally the result of bad confor- 

 mation, and in such cases cannot be called a vice. If due to ten- 

 derness of the foot, old lameness, a groggy gait, or habitual 

 carelessness and idleness, it must in such cases accompany a 

 horse hardly worth attempting to correct of the fault. 



Trot. A natural gait ; the medium pace. The order of 

 movement in the trot is left fore foot, right hind foot, right 

 fore foot, left hind foot. Thus the left fore and right hind 

 foot move in unison, striking the ground together; then in 

 turn the right fore foot and left hind foot complete the revolu- 

 tion. Hence the trot is most properly termed the diagonal 

 gait. In this gait there are two feet as bases of support 

 instead of one — the complete step, therefore, emits two beats. 

 The imprints left upon the ground by a horse at trotting speed 

 show these characteristics : Sometimes the print of the hind 

 foot remains behind that of the fore foot ; sometimes they are 

 both made in the exact place ; sometimes the hind one goes in 

 advance of that of the front one. Hence these have been 

 termed the ordinary, the short and the long trotting step. 

 AVhen the velocity of the trot is carried to its extreme limit, 

 the hind foot going far beyond the step of the fore foot, the 

 stride reaches its highest limit, and this gait is termed the 

 broken trot, and the flying trot. 



