78 ORANGE COUNTY 



OVER-REACHING OR CLINKING. 



An over-reach is a tread upon the heel of the 

 coronet of the fore foot by the shoe of the correspond- 

 ing hind foot, and is either inflicted by the toe, or by 

 the inner edge of the inside of the shoe, 



A writer in the N. E. Farmer, who is a blacksmith, 

 cures overreaching horses, and increases their trotting 

 speed fifteen or twenty seconds per mile, by the fol- 

 lowing mode of shoeing, which increases the motion 

 of the forward feet, and retards the motion of the hind 

 ones. He makes the toe- caulks very low, standing a 

 very little under, and the shoes set as far backward as 

 convenient on the forward feet, with high heel-caulks, 

 so as to let them roll over as soon as possible. On 

 the hind feet, the heel-caulk is low and the toe-caulk 

 high and projecting forward. Horses shod thus, travel 

 clean, with no click. 



PAWING. 



Some hot and irritable horses are restless, even in 

 the stable, and paw frequently and violently. Shackles 



