CHARGER — CHARLIER SHOE 



Charger. — An officer's first charger, if not thoroughbred, 

 should be as near it as possible. He must be up to great 

 weight if required to serve in any of the heavy regiments, 

 and his shoulders and bone should be of the best, whilst he 

 must show plenty of heart room, and possess good quarters. 

 There are plenty of first-rate chargers produced by hunter 

 breeders which find their way into the possession of military 

 men, and these possess more bone and substance, and are 

 therefore masters of more weight than the average thorough- 

 bred. The second charger should be on the same lines as 

 the other, but he is not required to be so valuable a horse, 

 nor is he always entirely free from minor blemishes which 

 would not be passed over in the case of an animal required 

 for parade purposes. (See Cavalry Horse.) 



Chariot is a four-wheeled carriage and under-spring 

 carriage with a body made to carry two persons. It has 

 hammercloth and standards in front and carved standards 

 and standing-board behind for two or more footmen. The 

 body is shaped like a coach body 

 behind and has a brougham shaped 

 pillar in front. 



Charlier Shoe. — The main object 

 of the Charlier method of shoeing is to 

 permit the sole, bars and frog of the 

 foot to be left untouched by the farrier. 

 In order to accomplish this and at the 

 same time to protect the horn of the 

 hoof, the shoe is fixed, not to the side, 

 but in a groove of the outside wall. 

 So as to allow for this the groove is 

 made all round the outside of the hoof Hoof prepared for 

 in such a manner that it will exactly Charher Shoe. 



accommodate the shoe and allow the frog to rest on the 

 ground. It must, of course, be obvious to everybody that it 

 is far easier to fit a Charlier shoe to some feet than it is to 



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