166 SHOEING, 



for a heat, and the horse is then said to have 

 ** broken down." 



This description comes so directly in point 

 \vith the shape and state of the horse's foot 

 in their mode of shoeing, that the horse must 

 be at all times liable to sudden lameness, 

 and more particularly at the rising of every 

 hill, where his foot would be exactly in the 

 situation by which I have described strains 

 to be acquired. Every reader at all ac- 

 quainted with, or having even a tolerable 

 idea of, the anatomical structure of the leg 

 and foot, by taking a comparative view of 

 the mode of shoeing recommended, and the 

 evident manner of sustaining an injury in the 

 hack sinews, as they are termed, will be 

 sufficiently enabled to decide upon the con- 

 sistency of the proposed plan, and, I flatter 

 myself, enough convinced of the danger to 

 coincide with me in opinion, that a horse 

 shod in this manner, to cover a hilly coun- 

 try either in a journey or the chace, must 

 inevitably fall dead lame from a relaxation 

 of the tendinous parts ; or, even in a low 

 flat country, become so exceedingly weary 

 from a want of proper support for the heel^ 



