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 CANKER— CANTER horse. They should never be used in the case of light horses which have to travel fast along hard roads, excepting in cases of emergency during frosty weather, or if the foot is diseased, which may make it necessary to raise the heel temporarily, as the height of the calki
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 CANKER— CANTER horse. They should never be used in the case of light horses which have to travel fast along hard roads, excepting in cases of emergency during frosty weather, or if the foot is diseased, which may make it necessary to raise the heel temporarily, as the height of the calkins throws the weight of the body towards the toes. Occasionally calkins are on the toes of shoes. (See Frost Nails, Shoeing.) Canker is one of the most serious ills that affect the feet of horses. It more often attacks the hind-feet, and can be recognised by its evil smell and a fungoid growth on the soles of the feet, which sometimes spreads to the wall of the hoof As a matter of fact, the hopes of a cure are very slight, and under any circumstances canker is beyond the art of the amateur to treat successfully, so the services of a professional man should be obtained. (See Thrush.) A Cankered Foot. Cannon Bones.—The large bones which lie between the knee and the fetlock on the fore-leg, and the hock and the fetlock on the hind ones. At the back of the cannon bone are situated the outside and inside splint bones, the back tendons, and the suspensory ligament, which see ; also Bones, Conformation, Splints. Canter.—This form of action can scarcely be regarded as a natural one, but rather as a reduced form of gallop. A horse at the canter moves rather obliquely, with the shoulder on the side of his leading leg, which is usually preferred to be the off one, slightly in front of the other. Assuming 58
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