the rim. The best results are obtained with 

 this shoe on a hard, smooth track. 



The worst knee-hitter is the horse that 

 stands perfectly straight on his feet and ankles, 

 and has straight pasterns and high heels. To 

 stand in front of him and size him up, you 

 would not pick him for a knee-knocker. When 

 he is going slow his front action is of the 

 ''stilty" order, and he occasionally brushes his 

 front shins. Step him up, and he picks his 

 foot up with a snap ; the foot swings out- 

 wardly and when the reverse motion comes, 

 he swings it in a winding curve and bumps 

 the opposite knee with the forward quarter of 

 the foot. Just imagine a horse going a mile 

 in 2.10 and rapping his knees in this manner 

 every stride. It is more dangerous, I have 

 always contended, to drive a hard-hitting knee- 

 knocker than a hobbled pacer, for he is liable 

 to fall any time and there is nothing that will 

 make a horse leg-weary so quicklv as hitting 

 his knees. I might add also, that it has the 

 same effect on the owner. 



If a horse is carrying a 12-oqnce shoe, make 

 it into a heel-weight shoe, or, more properly, 

 a bar-shoe with all of the weight in the back 

 part of the shoe and bar. Make the front 

 part of it as light as possible and round it off 

 at the toe and bevel off both sides back to 

 the last nail hole. Lowxr the heels of the foot 

 all they will stand and leave the toe possibly 

 three and seven-eighths inches. The object is 

 to make him go straight over the opposite 

 knee instead of against it. Much depends on 

 the driver, though, A horse of this kind will 



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