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5JX inches greater than in B, and yet the distance between fore and 

 hind is practically the same in both. We have found, however, that 

 the distance between the extremities generally increases somewhat 

 with the longer stride. 



The subject was a two-year-old colt by Zombro 2:11*4, a son of 

 McKinney, and had a good square gait. His fault in front lay in ex- 

 cessive outward angles and consequent brushing of knees, and further- 

 more a deficient forward extension of hind legs. On that account the 

 front shoes were beveled for an easier break-over outwardly, with the 

 results as given in Fig. 184. The feet were also pared as indicated to 

 conform to the rules of pointing. 



The tracks showed concussions of outside heels in both front feet, 

 but more so with the right fore, and behind both heels of the near hind 



FIG. 1 84- 



and outside. heel of the off hind left too hard a contact on ground to 

 be favorable to a good gait. There was, however, this difference be- 

 tween A and B : in A the inside heel used to strike the ground first and 

 cause foot to twist or toe inwardly, while in B, with the longer and 

 turned outside heels of both hind shoes, the contact was even with both 

 heels on the near hind and it left no particular heel concussions of the 

 off hind. In reality, the off hind was suitably shod while the forced out- 

 ward angle (from o to 2.1) of near hind told its story by increased 

 concussions of both heels. There was in B a greater forward extension 

 with near hind (ij^ inch), which may have been caused by the horse 

 trying to avoid a shock. At any rate, the difference was negligible, as 

 the diagonally opposite off fore also extended slightly ahead of the 

 near fore (y 2 in.) It is not evident, however, that the outside longer 



