The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

FROTH

.—A HORSE displaying a profusion of FROTH when champing upon the BIT, either in action upon the road, or in the FIELD with HOUNDS, may be considered a distinguishing, and almost invariable sign of both good spirit and sound bottom; for a dull jade, or a HORSE of the sluggish cart breed, is very rarely to be seen with this appearance. It is also no inferior criterion of HEALTH, and may, in general, be considered truly indicative of CONDITION: few, if any, horses of this description flag upon a journey, or tire in the field.