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for a fourth, unless he has made a dead heat. In heats best 

 three in five^ a horse not winning a heat in the first five is not 

 entitled to start for a sixth, unless he has made a dead heat — 

 but these horses thus ruled out have a right to a share of the 

 premium, or purse, according to their rank at the close of 

 their last heat. 



Winning" Horse. A horse must win a majority of the 

 heats which are required by the conditions of a race, to be 

 entitled to the stake or purse; but if he distances all compet- 

 itors in one heat, the race is terminated and he receives the 

 entire purse or stakes contended for, unless the special condi- 

 tions of the race provide otherwise. 



Winning Sires. Stallions, the producers of horses 

 that have been great winners in the races of the year ; or 

 which have put the largest number of sons and daughters 

 within the low-record lists. 



Winnings. The sums of money in stakes, purses and 

 premiums won by a horse in races during a year or a series of 

 years. Thus : The winnings of Eclipse during his life-time 

 are said to have amounted to $125,000 ; King Herod is said to 

 have won a total of over £200,000 ; Ormonde won for his 

 owner, the Duke of Westminster, nearly $145,000 ; Domino 

 won as a two-year-old, in a single year, $176,730. 



Winchester. The famous war-horse of Gen. P. H. 

 Sheridan. He was foaled in 1858 near Grand Rapids, Mich- 

 igan. He came into Gen. Sheridan's possession in 1862, and 

 went through the Mississippi campaign, and was afterwards 

 transferred to the Army of the Potomac, going through numer- 

 ous engagements. In 1863 he carried his master in the cele- 

 brated ride from Winchester to Cedar Creek, Va., a distance 

 of twenty miles, keeping in advance of the General's staff and 

 escort the whole distance. Winchester w^ent through between 

 eighty-five and ninety battles, and was wounded three times. 

 He died at Chicago, 111., October 2, 1878. 



Wind. The breath of a horse. " Sound of wind," in a 

 warranty, means that the horse warranted has no disease or 

 imperfection in his windpipe, larynx or bronchi, (air passages), 

 like grunting, high-blowing, thick wind or whistling. 



Windage. The resistance to the air of any body pass- 

 ing through it at a rapid rate. A term much used in connec- 

 tion with the description and testing of different kinds of 

 sulky wheels. 



Wind-galls ; Wind-puffs. The name given to soft, 

 puffy bunches the size of a hickory nut, which frequently 



