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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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Coronet or Coronary Process – Challenge

Coronet or Coronary Process

- The bony fringe, partly consisting of an enlargement of the lower end of the small pastern, which surrounds the top of the hoof.

Cow-hock

A hock that approaches sideways to its fellow, thereby bringing the shanks of the hind-leg unduly close.

Croup

The upper part of the body forward from the insertion of the tail to the lumbar vertebræ, which constitute the loins.

Crust of the Feet

- The horny outer portion of the hoof.

Dappled.-Epithet of a coat more or less plentifully sprinkled with rings or spots of a darker colour.

Cornwall

East.

Cotswold.

Cotswold

North.

Cottesmore.

Craven.

Craven's

Lady.

Crawley and Horsham.

Croome.

Cumberland.

Cumberland (West).

Curre's

Mr.

Curwen's

Mr. A. D.

ENGLAND (continued).

Fitzwilliam's, Earl (The Grove).

Fitzwilliam's, Earl (Wentworth).

Flint and Denbigh.

Four Burrow.

Garth.

Gelligaer.

Glamorgan.

Goathland.

Gogerddan.

Grafton.

H.H. (Hampshire).

Hambledon.

Harrington's, Lord.

Haydon.

Herefordshire, North.

Herefordshire, South.

Hertfordshire.

Heythrop.

Holderness.

Hursley.

Hurt's, Mr.

Carries

(Of the ground), when it sticks to the fox's pads after frost.

Carry a good head. (Of the hounds), to run and keep well together on a good scent.

Cast

To spread out, in search of the scent.

Hounds either cast themselves or are cast by the huntsman.

Catch hold. A huntsman is said to do this when he, at a check, takes his hounds forward, either to a hollca or for some reason of his own.

Challenge

The first hound which speaks on hitting off the line "challenges."

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