the fifth heat on a heavy track. Then, per- 

 haps, a Httle ''For Sale" ad might help yoit 

 out, or yon might decide to let him pace. 



Quite often the colt will show you a sample 

 of every gait going, from the Indian's ''sun- 

 dance" to the "Pittsburg Glide," and some 

 morning when your disposition is almost a 

 total loss you will polish up his ribs with some- 

 thing he will feel and he will begin to pace, not 

 very good or very far, but he will pace. Take 

 him over to the shop and put on about four 

 ounces in front and eight ounces behind; hook 

 him to the lightest cart you have and when you 

 come to a little piece of down-hill road let him 

 pace. AMien going up-hill, let him walk. After 

 he gets pace into his head, which he will in a 

 few days, shoe him with five or six-ounce shoes 

 all around ; he will never need much weight on 

 any of his feet after he gets his gait estab- 

 lished. One of the greatest pacers the world 

 ever knew wore five and one-half ounces in 

 front and five ounces behind. 



Any pacer is liable to cross-fire, but a young, 

 green pacer is more liable to do it than an 

 aged horse. There are various causes for it. 

 A horse may not be rapid enough in front. 

 His mouth may be sore, causing him to get 

 his head, and, consequently, his front parts out 

 of line and, if he wears hobbles, they may pull 

 him across ; and there are numberless other 

 reasons. In extreme cases I would recom- 

 mend the extension shoe behind, that is, a shoe 

 with a wide outside web, the forward corner of 

 the extension coming out three-eighths or one- 

 half inch outside of the toe, a sharp calk being 



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