The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Carnarvonshire – Coper

Carnarvonshire

- Vaynol Park, near Bangor.

Cheshire

Aston Hall, near Frodsham; Tabley Park, Hooton-on-the-Mersey; Eaton Hall near Chester, and Burton Hall.

CORNWALL.-Lamorran, Trenant Wood. near Truro; Fowey;

Cumberland

- Greystoke; Wythrop Woods, near Bassenthwaite; Gobay Park, and Edenhall, near Penrith; Eamont River, below Ulleswater; Muncaster Castle.

Calf Knee

A knee that bends sideways towards its fellow; similar to knock-knees in man.

Calkin or Calk

A spur projecting downward from a horse's shoe in order to prevent it from falling in slippery weather.

Cannon Bone or Canon Bone

- The bone uniting knee joint and fetlock in the fore-leg, hock and fetlock in the hind. Also called shank.

Chin Groove

- The depression behind the horse's lower jaw in which the curb-chain fits.

Clicking

A defect in a horse's paces, which causes him to knock his feet against one another when he is trotting or galloping. Also called forging.

Cob

Any compact, short-legged horse.

Coffin Bone

- The bone in the centre of the hoof.

Commissure

The natural clefts of a horse's foot. They are three in number, one down the centre of the frog, the others between the bars and the crust.

Coper

Any dealer in horses whose integrity is uncertain.

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