106 SYSTEM FOR TRAINING CAYALRY HORSES. 



the shoe should be turned up a little, so as to clear 

 the ground ; the horse will travel safer and better for 

 it. 



It will now be supposed that jou have shortened 

 the toe of the hoof, rasped away the crust, to receive 

 the turned-up shoe, cut a notch for the clip, and turn 

 ed up the toe of the shoe. You must now put the toe 

 of the shoe in the fire, and make it hot enough to 

 mark the uneven portions of horn, which should be 

 rasped away, until an even bed ialeft for the shoe to 

 rest upon. 



Wlien the toe is once properly fitted, there will be 

 very little trouble in fitting the quarters and heels ; 

 you have only to bring them in over the beak of the 

 anvil, until the edge of the shoe ranges with the edge 

 of the hoof back to the furthest point of the heel on 

 each side, and continue the same sweep, until it nearly 

 touches the frog ; there must be none of the shoe left 

 sticking out beyond the hoof, either behind or at the 

 sides of the heels. 



The part of the foot that needs protection from 

 injury more than any other, is the " navicular joint," 

 which rests upon the frog, about an inch or an inch 

 and a quarter behind its point, and the only way to 

 protect it, is to keep the web of the shoe as wide at 

 the heels as it is at the toe, and to bring in the heels 

 until they nearly touch the frog ; by so doing you 

 lessen the opening of the shoe, and the web of <me 

 side or the other will strike upon the stones in the 



