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JAY GOULD STRIDE. 



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SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOEING. 



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Fig. 14. 



A, A, front footprints. 



B, B, hind footprints. 



Jay Gould's stride was very wide be- 

 hind, as shown in diagram. A, A, 

 represents the front footprints ; J>, B, 

 the hind footprints. This famous trot- 

 ting stallion was so wide gated behind 

 as to have made it very tiresome for 

 him, and if as much had l)een known 

 in his day as at present about the shoe- 

 ing of trotting horses, he could have 

 been shod behind so as to have closed 

 up his gait and inci'eased his speed 

 from four to ten seconds. Jay Gould 

 was as plucky, as game a horse as (>v(^r 

 was entered upon the track. It is my 

 opinion that for the lowering of records 

 in the past thirty-five years and more 

 of trotters, from 2:40 to 2:03f, the 

 modei'n farrier, educated and experi- 

 enced, can not be given too much 

 2:)raise, and also for his labor in balanc- 

 ing the leg and body so as to equalize 

 the pressure to all parts of the foot and 

 leg. Thus a uniform motion is pro- 

 duced, no unnatural strain fatigties one 

 part of the body more than another, 

 and the motion of the trotter is like 

 clockwork in its regularity. 



