Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
Лошадь вспотела и сбила ноги
English translation:
The horse worked up a lather and started limping/became lame
Russian term
United Kingdom
Cito, non temere
Native in: English 
Works in: German to English, Spanish to English, Russian to English, and 1 more.
Лошадь вспотела и сбила ноги
| 4 | The horse worked up a lather and started limping/became lame |
Sofia Gutkin
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| 4 -1 | the horse worked up a sweat and cracked |
katerina turevich
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Mar 16, 2014 01:59: Sofia Gutkin changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Mar 16, 2014 07:42: Julia Zarubinska-Toepritz changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1681106">Julia Zarubinska-Toepritz's</a> old entry - "Лошадь вспотела и сбила ноги"" to ""the horse worked up a sweat and cracked""
PRO (3): Alexandra Schneeuhr, MariyaN (X), Sofia Gutkin
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Proposed translations
Australia
www.sabletranslations.com
Native in: English (Variants: Australian, New Zealand, British) 
, Russian (Variant: Standard-Russia)
Works in: Russian to English, English, English to Russian
The horse worked up a lather and started limping/became lame
And I'm pretty sure the phrase about it's feet means that it injured its legs and started limping. It definitely doesn't mean it died.
http://myhorse.com/free-guides/diagnosing-and-treating-equin...
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Note added at 19 hrs (2014-03-16 02:11:45 GMT)
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More on horse lather! :) http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/health/horsesweat-161.shtml#axzz2...
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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2014-03-16 08:04:28 GMT) Post-grading
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No problems, thank you.
| I apologise as I meant to award your answer 4 grades, got distracted, and awarded it to the other answerer. I will try to sort it out with the moderators. Your answer was entered into the glossary. Thank you. Yours is the one that definitely makes sense. |
Netherlands
attentive to detail and fast
Native in: English , Russian
Works in: Dutch to English, Russian to English
the horse worked up a sweat and cracked
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Note added at 3 hrs (2014-03-15 10:17:13 GMT)
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cracked on the way (there)
you can also say "cracked up"
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Sofia Gutkin
: The horse cracked up? How is that possible? Or do you mean that it got a crack in its hoof?
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I thought the Russian sentence, which is also not quite idiomatic, deserves a more original approach than the identification of a medical condition.
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Discussion
Когда Румата миновал могилу святого Мики - седьмую по счету и последнюю на этой дороге, было уже совсем темно. Хваленый хамахарский жеребец, взятый у дона Тамэо за карточный долг, оказался сущим барахлом. Он вспотел, сбил ноги и двигался скверной, вихляющейся рысью. Румата сжимал ему коленями бока, хлестал между ушами перчаткой, но он только уныло мотал головой, не ускоряя шага.
Фраза 'crack up' (slang) обычно значит рассмеяться, crack it (slang) - разозлиться, потерять контроль на собой, просто cracked - треснуть.
А поскольку текст литературный, то технические детали, наверно, не очень важны. "the horse cracked its knees" would be more technical then needed here.