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occur on the fore leg at the upper part of the fetlock joint, 

 between the tendon and the shin bone. They occasionally 

 develop on the hind leg. The joints and tendons at these 

 parts are furnished with sacs filled with a lubricating substance 

 known as synovia, and when these sacs become over-distended 

 with this fluid it produces wind-puffs, or wind-galls. Hunters, 

 hurdle racers and trotters with excessive knee action, are all 

 predisposed to this form of injury. Complete rest will genei- 

 ally effect a cure. 



Wind-split. Broken wind. 



Wind-sucker. A term applied to a horse having the 

 heaves. Wind-sucking renders the horse unsound. 



Wing's. The projecting ends at the heel of a shoe, bent 

 forward and inward, to rest on the bars of the foot. 



Winkers. The side pieces of a blind bridle. 



Wire-edge. When a horse is in high fettle, is rank 

 for a race and in the highest condition to do his best at speed, 

 he is said to be " wire-edged." 



If yoni- horse is particularly rank, work him alone nntil you get the 

 wire-edge off him, then take your prompter and show him that lie 

 is not f»X)in4? to be hurt.— Life with the Trotters, John Splan. 



Wire, The. Home; the score; a, goal in a trotting 



race ; to "come under the wire first," is to win the heat. 



Wire Snaffle. Explained by the quotation : 



A fancy bit, worthy of only a junk-shop.— The Bridle Bits, Col. J. C. 

 Battersby. 



Wiring"-in. A peculiar form of contraction affecting 

 the fore feet, and occasionally the hind feet of horses. In 

 most cases it is the inside heel which contracts, and when this 

 occurs the horse is said to " wire in." 



Withers. The bony ridge which is the forward contin- 

 uation of the back. Its posterior limit runs into that of the 

 back in a gradual manner ; its anterior termination ends 

 abruptly at the crest ; at its sides the shoulders meet. 



W. O. Following the name of a horse in the trotting 

 and pacing records, means a walk-over. 



Wobble. An unsteady gait; the warning of a break. 

 Mr. Splan, in describing one of his races with Rams, says : 

 " He went steadily true all the way to the head of the stretch, 

 and there he made a wobble, as though he was going to 

 break." Mr. Marvin describes a race between Rarus and 

 Goldsmith ]\Iaid, in which Budd Doble had said that the mare 

 was "wobbling throughout the entire heat," and Mr. Splan 

 replied, " Well, she has wobbled as good a mile as ever she 



