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Bass Broom
  A stable broom with long bristles.
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Contributors: Jan

Basse Ecole
  Exercises by which a pupil learned to mount. The 'basse' in the 19th century riding schools was a way of training.
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Contributors: Jan

Bastard Strangles
  A condition, which arises, should the swollen glands typical of strangles burst. The infection is carried into the blood stream. Veterinary assistance will be necessary.
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Basterna
  A Roman horse litter with poles attached to a horse in front and behind, as in a form of sedan chair.
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Contributors: Jan

Bat
  An old name for a stick carried when riding.
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Contributors: Jan

Baulking
  Refusing to start. See Jibbing.
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Bay
  The body colouring of the horse is brown. The mane and tail must be black. A bay may have socks or stockings and various face markings. They often have black points and may have a mealy muzzle. There are many different shades of bay: mahogany bay, bright bay, dark bay, and light bay. Bays have dark skin and are the most likely colour to have ermine marks.
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Bay-brown colour
  Conforming partly, but not exactly, to both bay and brown. For example, the many may contain both brown and black hairs.
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Beaming
  (An old term). A Coper’s trick, when an animal was lame on one front foot, a small piece of metal or sharp stone was placed in-between the shoe and the wall of the sound hoof in order to cause temporary pain. Therefore, the horse appeared to go sound.
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BEans
  Heating food, but excellent for animals in hard work, as they are high in protein. They should be fed with caution and cracked or kibbled. There is an old saying ‘full of beans’, I have always understood it to refer to plough horses, who being fed too many beans, came out of the stable first thing in the morning very lively.
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Contributors: Jo

Bearing
  The surface of the shoe in contact with the foot.
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Bearing Rein
  A rein from the pad to the bridle of a harness horse, used when necessary to stop a horse lowering his head beyond a certain point. Much abused at one time to force high head carriage in harness horse.
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Bearing rein (full)
  A gag like rein for supporting the head of a harness horse. Unlike bearing rein simple it runs from billet stitched to ‘head’ and is then passed through swivel on bridoon bit from which it is taken through another swivel to terret.
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Contributors: Kiran

Bearskin-cape
  A cape worn by coachmen of the best class, who drove private ‘town’ vehicles in cold weather.
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Beast
  The name applied to horses by some people, but not by horsemen except to an animal justifying the insulting term.
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