Welcome to CT. Scratch should cut into the coin. Spitting horse is some sort of die crack, so the impression on coin should be a bulging line. Just my thoughts.
Hi Welcome to ct! Imho , it sure looks like it. Nice find! http://board.conecaonline.org/showt...uot-Spitting-Horse-quot-die-crack-error-coins
Congrats! You found a true spitting horse. That's a die crack that caused that. You can see that it's raised.