hit his knees anyway with a careless driver, 

 for, going at a certain clip, he will go just 

 high enough to get his knee ; but if he has a 

 watchful "jock" who will get him ready to 

 step, going quite slow and then pick him up 

 and step him right upon his toes without any 

 preliminaries, there will be no intermediate 

 w^ork and no intermediate blows. I trust you 

 get my meaning. 



The next horse to consider is the one that stands 

 with the inside heels low and curved under 

 and his toes pointing out like an Alabama coon 

 standing before the bar of justice. Pick up 

 the front foot and look down over it and you 

 will discover that two-thirds of the foot is on 

 the outside of the center of the frog. To get 

 a good idea of this lay a rule edgeways, 

 straight down the center of the frog, and note 

 the difference in the amount of foot outside 

 to the amount inside. Also, the outside will 

 be highest and the inside quarter will not only 

 be lower, but from a half an inch to an inch 

 shorter than the outside lateral quarter. This 

 is one of the colts I told you about in the be- 

 ginning that started all of this trouble when he 

 first got upon his feet. He will probably go 

 in a ten-ounce shoe. All right ! Lower the 

 outside of the foot all you can from the heel 

 to the spot indicated by the point of the frog — - 

 that is the center of the foot ; take off the ed2:e 

 of the outside forward quarter with the rasp 

 in an effort to turn the toe in. Fit the shoe 

 flush with the inside wall, and let the inside 

 heel of the shoe run back straight where the 

 (juarter is not, but should be. Fit the outside 



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