CHAPTER XV. 

 Extension Shoes. 



The extension shoe is a very useful shoe on 

 a pacer that cross fires badly, or on a trotter 

 that carries one hind foot in between his front 

 feet. Made into a front shoe — open or bar- 

 shoe — it is often used with success on knee hit- 

 ters, both trotters and pacers. In preparing 

 the pattern for an extension shoe, draw out the 

 inside web first, notching out the extension 

 squarely^ then draw down the outside web at 



Extension Shoe with Triangle Grab. 



the heel (see cut). When it is bent into form 

 the extension will be on a line with the toe of 

 the shoe, and the distance it extends outside 

 the foot is governed by the seriousness of the 



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