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foot. It is upon the wall that the shoe rests, and through it 

 the nails confining it are driven. The wall is deepest in front, 

 and diminishes toward the quarters and heels, becoming 

 thinner; while at its angles of inflection, (the points of the 

 heels), it is strong. The wall is fibrous, the fibres passing 

 directly parallel to each other from the coronet to the ground, 

 each fibre being moulded on, as fast as secreted, by one of the 

 minute tufts of blood vessels lodged in the cavity at the 

 coronet. 



Warming-up Heat. An exercise previous to a race ; 

 a jogging heat between a real heat ; a test of speed to bring 

 a horse to his best edge. 



Warranty. [Law.] A general or express warrant is 

 an unconditional undertaking that the horse is really what the 

 warrantor professes it to be. In the United States, says the 

 American and English Encyclopaedia of Law, there is always 

 an implied contract that the vendor, (seller), has a right to dis- 

 pose of the article which he sells. A general warrant is an 

 unconditional undertaking, therefore, that a horse really is 

 what the warrantor professes it to be. There is no particular 

 form of words necessary to constitute a warranty. A warrant 

 may be qualified — as if the vendor says, " I never warrant, but 

 he is sound as far as I know." In this case an action for 

 breach can be maintained if it can be proved that the seller 

 knew the horse was unsound. A warranty may be limited as 

 to time, as, for instance, "after twenty-four hours I do not 

 warrant." The seller of a horse in making warranty may 

 except some defect of which he knows, or he may expressly 

 state in what particulars only, he warrants the animal. A 

 general warranty does not cover obvious defects in a horse; 

 being such they are plain to the buyer and require no skill to 

 detect. But if the purchaser suspects a defect and wishes to 

 examine and try the horse, but the seller objects and says, " I 

 will warrant him," he is liable for the defect. Where, how- 

 ever, there is no opportunity of inspecting, caveat emptor does 

 not apply. If a man not knowing the age of a horse, but 

 having a written pedigree which he received with him, sell a 

 horse of the age stated in the pedigree, at the same time stat- 

 ing he knows nothing of him but what he learned from the 

 pedigree, he is not liable to an action when it is shown that 

 the pedigree is false. 



Warrant; Warranty. To make good a statement or 

 bargain ; a certificate that a horse is as represented. It is not 

 requisite that a warranty should be in writing, even though a 

 written receipt is given for the money. In Allen vs. Pink — a 



