The first milk made by a mare for her foal, very high in protein, which gives the new-born foal its immunity.
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Jan
Coloured
Coloured horses are either Piebald or skewbald.
For showing a coloured horse must have a patch of a diffrent colour with a diameter of 6inchs above the knee and hock joint
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Treacle
Colt
An entire male horse up to 4 - 5 years old.
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Jan
Combined Training
A Dressage and Showjumping competition, possibly including a cross-country test, as in a three-day event.
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Jan
Common Digital Extensor Tendon
The function of the common digital extensor tendon is to extend the bones of the foot and lift the toe.
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Jan
Concussion
Stress caused to the joints by jar, shock or trauma. Most likely to affect the front legs, which bear 65% of the horse's weight.
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Jan
Conformation
The term used to describe a horse's physical characteristics. A major factor in soundness of the horse's legs. Poor conformation may predispose to sprains of joints, ligaments, and tendons bone injury and navicular disease.
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Jan
Conium Maculatum
See Hemlock.
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Jan
Contact
The amount of 'weight' between the rider's hands and the horse's mouth.
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Jan
Contracted Heels
That are too narrow. They should be wider than the toe. Mild causes are described as being straight and upright. Possible causes: - infection malnutrition, dietary deficiency, or old age.
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Jan
Corn
Bruise to the sole of the foot. Most common at the seat of corn, the angle formed by the wall and bars of the foot.
Colloquial term for: - wheat/oats/barley.
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Jan
Coronary band
A thick convex part of the corium situated round the top of the foot between the upper part of the perioplic ring and the upper margin of the sensitive laminae. it extends around the foot from one bulb of the heel to the other and is thickest and roundest at the toe.
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Lauren Ward
Coronet
Tthe sensitive band around the top of the wall of the hoof, and it is from here that the hoof grows.
Marking - if the white marking is so small that is hardly extends beyond the coronet, is called a white coronet.
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Jan
Counter Canter
A school movement in which the horse canters in a circle with the outside leg leading instead of the inside leg as usual.
