At the Halter.—“Sold to halter,” or “at the halter” means without guarantee of any kind. The horse likely will be wild, balky, unmanageable or so unsound as to be useless.
Beefy Hocks.—Coarse, meaty hocks having too much connective and adipose tissue. The hock should be clean, hard, free from beefiness, puffs and bony growths.
Bellows to Mend.—Wind-broken; heaves.
Bench-Legged.—Knees bent toward one another.
Blind-Spavin.—Occult or hidden spavin among bones composing hock joint.
Blue Eye.—Eye showing a bluish or pearly cast, indicating unsoundness and disease which may or may not have caused blindness.
Bobber or Jig Back.—Weak loins causing bobbing or wobbling of the hind quarters.
Boggy in Hocks.—Distension of the capsular ligament of the hock joint indicated by a large or small, soft, fluctuating, synovia-filled swelling at the front of joint. Such hocks appear dropsical. The condition constitutes bog-spavin, and by some is termed wind-puff or wind-gall.
Bowed Tendon.—A thickened, bulging unsoundness of the back tendons (flexors). Caused by an injury.