Guinea.—A Greek or Italian buyer.
Hand.—Four inches. Width of the palm of the hand, used in measuring the height of a horse from the ground surface at the sole of the foot to the highest point of withers.
Hand Stick.—Used for measuring the height of horse.
Heaves; Heavey.—“Broken wind,” or “emphysema of the lungs,” characterized by coughing, passing of gas from the rectum, and double bellows-like the action of the abdominal muscles in breathing.
Head Strong.—Halter puller in stall.
High Blower.—Broken winded or may be soft from feeding and idleness.
Hillside.—Hipped.
Hipped.—Point of hip-bone (ilium) fractured (knocked down), making that hip lower than the other when viewed from the rear, and not unusually a serious unsoundness. When distortion is great, the shaft of the ilium may have been fractured. The latter condition may render a mare unfit for breeding purposes.
Hip Sweeny.—Wasting (atrophy) of the muscles of the hip. Often serious in mares, being associated with fracture of the pelvis, and unfitting them for breeding purposes.
Hitch.—Stride of one hind leg too short.