=Pink-Eye.=—Pinky, as a market term, applied to moon blindness. Correctly speaking, epizootic, cellulitis, or influenza, especially affecting the membranes of the eyes. =Plug.=—An old, worn-out horse, or one of poor shape. =Poll-Evil.=—Swelling and abscess, similar to fistulous withers, affecting poll of head. =Pones.=—Lumps of fat on body of mule. =Posting.=—Rider rising and falling in saddle with each alternate step of horse when trotting. =Puffs.=—Soft swellings involving joints or tendons. Distensions of synovial bursal and capsular ligaments. Thoroughpins, wind-galls, bog-spavin. =Quarter Crack.=—Fissure in wall of hoof running from hair toward sole at quarter. =Quittor.=—Enlargement of the hoof head (coronet) having one or more openings (pipes or sinuses) discharging pus and connecting with diseased cartilage or other tissues. =Rat Tail.=—Slim, almost hairless tail. =Rejects.=—Horses returned to seller on account of unsoundness, or for other reasons. =Rickety.=—Horse affected with rickets (rachitis). Same as Bobber or Jig Back. =Ridgeling. Original.=—Cryptorchid. Testicles retained in abdomen or inguinal canal. =Ringbone.=—A bony growth (exostosis) affecting the long or short pastern bones and coffin bones. =Ripper.=—An unusually good, big horse. =Roach Mane.=—Mane cut short. =Roarer.=—Horse makes a roaring noise when exhaling air, the condition being due to paralysis affecting the nerves and cartilages of larynx. (Laryngeal hemiplegia.) =Sallenders.=—Scurfy or eczematous condition of the skin in front of hock joint. =Sand-Crack.=—A fissure of the wall of the hoof at the toe. =Scalper.=—A horse dealer who handles cheap or questionable horses. He may have no regular stable or business headquarters. =Scalping.=—Striking front of hind coronet, pastern or cannon against front toe when speeding. =Seam in Foot.=—Blemish, old scar, or healed crack in the hoof wall. =Seedy-Toe.=—Separation between wall and sensitive laminæ of hoof at toe, the space being filled with white, dry, powdery horn; sometimes with pus; “toe clip” is a common cause. =Serpentine.=—A horse that extends and withdraws his tongue as a serpent. =Serviceably Sound.=—See No. 2, Auction Rules. The term is incorrect, as a horse is either sound or unsound. =Shadow Jumper.=—Nervous, skittish; afraid of his own shadow. =Shell-Bone.=—Side-bone. =Shipping Fever.=—Influenza contracted on cars, or it may be acclimation fever. =Shaky in Stall.=—A shiverer. =Shiverer.=—Afflicted with chorea (St. Vitus’ dance). =Shoe Boil.=—A serious abscess, or open pus discharging sore or tumor of the point of the elbow. Caused by the horse bruising the elbow upon the floor, not necessarily upon the heel of a shoe, as commonly supposed. =Short Leet.=—The best horse selected by the judges from a number of competing animals in the show ring, and among which the prizes are distributed after further examination. =Sickle Hock.=—See curby-formed hock.