SPECIFIC AND REMEDIAL SHOEING. 



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Fig. 142. This shoe, 

 if properly made and ad- 

 justed to the foot, will not 

 fail to do all that is claimed 

 for it. Trotting horses vary 

 so greatly that no rule can 

 be laid down applicable to 

 all, beyond the general ob- 

 servation to shoe each horse 

 in accordance with his shape, 

 build and gait, with difier- 

 ently weighted and con- 

 structed shoes. 



The shoe in question 

 should be used only on 

 horses with their hind legs 

 inclined to stand under the 

 body. On close examination 



of the hind legs from the hock, we find the two nind feet close 

 together, and the legs open between the hocks ; we notice the 

 pasterns from the union of the upper pastern to the lower por- 

 tion of the cannon-bone leaning outwardly. Dropping plumb 

 lines from' the inner and outer sides of the hock to the ground, 

 we observe that both will hang, the one on the outer and the 

 other toward the outer side, and that the weight does not pass 

 through the axis of the leg and foot. In proportion, therefore,, 

 as these lines are distant from their normal position, the outer 

 branch of the shoe will require to be turned outwardly to meet 

 the vertical, and as the inside heel calkin of the shoe is lowered, 

 just so much will the upper pastern be brought near the cente^' 

 line through axis of foot and leg. 



The inside branch of shoe is to fit snuglv to the inner wall 

 of foot. The outside branch of shoe, extending well back of 

 heel and leg, will serve as a brace to support the upper pastern 



Fig. 142. hind foot shoe, to widen" 



THE action. 



A, Inside branch. B, Ending of in- 

 side toe calk. C, Ending of outside 

 toe calk. Lines A B, A C show circle 

 of toe. 



