SALTRAM,—the name of a horse who acquired considerable celebrity by his performances upon the TURF, since which he has stood as a STALLION in a proportional degree of estimation. He was foaled in 1780; got by _Eclipse_, dam (_Virago_) by _Snap_ grand-dam by _Regulus_, out of a sister to _Black and all Black_. He was sire of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's _St. David_, the Duke of York's _Laurustina_, and the Duke of Bedford's _Sprightly_, Lord Grosvenor's _Brown Filly_ (out of _Sting_,) who won five prizes in 1790, at _two years old_, amounting to 1100 guineas; _Caroline_, and _Tiffany_; _Queen of Sheba_, (who won 900 guineas, at Newmarket, in 1792;) _Rose_, _Spankaway_, _Sweeper_, and the Prince of Wales's _Whiskey_, who won in the same year 1000 guineas, 2000 guineas, the 1400 guineas, 100 guineas, and 100 guineas, at Newmarket, and 50_l._ at Bedford; _Royalist_, _General_, _Henrietta_, _Clytus_, _Coal Merchant_, _Tear-Coat_, _Peeping Tom_, _Septem_, _Coiner_, _Whip_, and _Oscar_; exclusive of many Colts and Fillies, who were winners at Newmarket, and elsewhere, but never were named. SANDCRACK—is a crack or cleft in the HOOF of a HORSE, which originates in a preternatural brittleness, brought on by standing too constantly upon hot dry litter, without stopping to the bottom, or a proper and occasional oiling of the hoof, to keep it in a healthy state. It generally runs in a straight line downwards; and when it extends from the junction of hair and hoof to the bottom, with the bloody lymph oozing from the membranous mass at the top, it then becomes a serious concern, affording no expectation of speedy consolation. There is, in fact, but one direct mode of cure, which is to reduce the projecting and ragged edges to a level, with the finest side of the rasp. Then with the fine edge of a small firing-iron, of moderate heat, run two lines parallel to each other on each side the crack longitudinally; this done, draw two in the same manner transversely _above_, and the same below the centrical part of the cleft, by which it will be enclosed in a small square of double lines, calculated to restore the union which has been destroyed. A little compound tincture of myrrh, or friar's balsam, should be poured into the crack so soon as it is observed, particularly if blood should be perceived to transude from the opening. In slight cases, horses may be continued in moderate use; but where they bear the complexion previously described, turning out to grass in a pasture _moist_, but not _wet_, and that for a length of time, is the only foundation upon which the expectation of permanent cure can be entertained. SCAB.—The disorder in horses so called, is the species of mange become inveterately _dry_ and _scabby_ by its long duration.