The encyclopædia of the stable The encyclopædia of the stable: a complete manual of the horse, its breeds, anatomy, physiology, diseases, breeding, breaking, training and management, with articles on harness, farriery, carriages, etc. comprising a thousand hints to horse owners encyclopdiaofs00shaw Year: 1909 CABRIOLET—CALKINS As regards action, it may be added that a horse which goes close either before or behind should be rejected, whilst, of course, such decided faults as brushing, over-reaching, and speedy cutting should never be overlooked. (See Auction SaleSy Repositories, Soundness.) C
The encyclopædia of the stable The encyclopædia of the stable: a complete manual of the horse, its breeds, anatomy, physiology, diseases, breeding, breaking, training and management, with articles on harness, farriery, carriages, etc. comprising a thousand hints to horse owners encyclopdiaofs00shaw Year: 1909 CABRIOLET—CALKINS As regards action, it may be added that a horse which goes close either before or behind should be rejected, whilst, of course, such decided faults as brushing, over-reaching, and speedy cutting should never be overlooked. (See Auction SaleSy Repositories, Soundness.) Cabriolet is a cab-shaped gig with leather hood and a standing-board behind for a small servant or groom. The cabriolet was at its zenith of fashion in the early Victorian era, but has now gone quite out of favour and is seldom or never used. Calculus.—A hard lump of matter resembling a stone which forms on the intestines of horses as a result of swallow- ing dusty food, or a minute particle of wood or metal which lodges in the inside and provides a centre for part of the food to attach itself to. The substance in time becomes hard and stonelike, and eventually causes inflammation and death. As a proof of how such calculi originate, it may be mentioned that the famous St Leger winner, Robert the Devil, died from the effects of one which had formed round a small piece of zinc which he is believed to have gnawed off his manger ; whilst a half-sovereign was discovered to be the nucleus of a calculus which killed another famous horse. Calf Knees are knees which bend backwards from the perpendicular. (See Knees.) Calf Knees. Calkins.—The projections caused by bending down the heels of a shoe in order to afford a secure foothold for the :>/
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