Questions And Solved Answers.
Equipment used for racing - Answer Chamoise, Jockey saddle, number cloth, pommel pad, under girth,
over girth
Blister - Answer Chemical ointment or liquid which when applied to a limb causes acute inflammation.
Treats osslets, ringbone, bowed tendon ect
Blood Spavin - Answer Swelling of the large vein that passes over the bog spavin
Blood worms - Answer Considered the most dangerous of all internal parasites that are found in
horses. Adults live in large intestines and larve migrate in the arteries causing a thickening in the blood
vessels and sometimes stoppage of blood flow
Bog Spavin - Answer Chronic distention of the joint capsule of the hock that causes a swelling of the
front-inside of the hock joint. Associated with lameness in affected leg
Bone Spavin - Answer A bony enlargement of the lower portion of the inside of the hock joint
Associated with lameness in affected leg
Bowed Tendon - Answer Traumatic injury to the flexor tendons behind the cannon bone as result of
severe strain in which there in tearing and stretching if tendon fibers, This gives a bowed appearance of
the tendon externally
Bucked shin - Answer Painful swelling on the front surface of the cannon bone caused by injury to the
periosteum that attaches to the front of cannon bone
Capped Hock - Answer A swelling found at the point of the hock caused by a bruise, Occurs from horses
kicking walls