ON THE FOOT 135 



talking over these matters lately with a friend of mine 

 who has been a great breeder of race-horses, and has 

 had much experience in others, he observed, " You 

 remember my Currycomb colt ! I never took such 

 pains with any horse's feet in my life as I did with his, 

 to make them perfect, but he was never sound after 

 four years old. My Zodiac horse, that I rode so many 

 seasons, had very narrow feet, with scarcely any frogs 

 at all, and never was lame in his life." 



