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description, or which, in Its ordinary progress, will diminish the 

 natural usefulness of the animal; or if the horse has, either from 

 disease or accident, undergone any alteration of structuie. that 

 either does at the time, or in its ordinary effects will diminish the 

 natural usefulness of the horse, such horse is unsound. 



Unsteady. Said of a horse that is good and solid 

 against time, but behaves bad in company. 



Untried. By the early racing rules an untried stallion 

 or mare was one whose get or produce had never run in public. 

 The Turf Congress rules now say : " An untried horse is one 

 that has not produced a winner before and up to any certain 

 specified time." 



Up. A horse is said to be " up " in a heat when he breaks ; 

 the word is also used to denote a horse that is beaten, as, " it is 

 all up with him; he's up," that is, he is done. 



Up in Your Arms. An expression used by drivers 

 meaning that the horse of which it is said is prompt ; alert ; 

 always responsive; "up and dressed;" ready; "right up in 

 your arms." 



Up to Weig'lit, means that a driver is just the weight 

 required by the rules of the trotting turf, viz : One hundred 

 and fifty pounds. 



Used. A term sjmonymous with aged, and indicates the 

 time when the horse has become prematurely old. 



