INJURIES FROM SHOEING 



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Over-reach is an injury to the heel of a front foot by the shoe of 

 the hind foot of the same side. It is not the outer edge of the hind 

 shoe which strikes, it is the edge on the inner circumference of the toe 

 of the shoe. To prevent over-reaching, the hind shoe must be so altered 

 that the oifending part is rounded off". As the accident only occurs 



Tig. 652. — Over-reaching, Forging, and Clacking 



1, Toe of hind shoe, showing the edge which cuts the heel of fore foot. 2, Toe of hind shoe, showing 

 rounded inside border. 3, Toe of fore shoe, showing places struck in forging. 4, Toe of hind shoe, showing 

 the edge which strikes the fore shoe. 5, Toe of hind shoe with inner border bevelled off. 



during the fastest paces it is confined to hunters and trotters, two classes 

 of horses which ought always to be .shod with hind shoes having rounded 

 edges on their inner toe circumference. 



Clacking, or Forging, is the noise made by horses trotting when 

 the hind shoe strikes the fore. It is not the heel of the front shoe 

 that is struck, but the surface of the shoe just behind the toe, so that 

 the foot is in the air at the time of striking. The part of the hind shoe 



