light bar affords a lot of protection to a fro^ 

 that is being made too much use of — getting 

 too much pressure — because the horse's heels 

 are low and the frog is large and prominent. 

 Then again, one or both heels or quarters of 

 the foot may be weak and broken, and a shoe 

 with a wide, thin bar putting a large share of 

 the horse's weight onto the frog will save the 

 foot from further injury and possible lameness. 



And again, a strong-going horse may spread 

 his hind shoes — they are usually light anyway 

 — and he may spread the heels of his foot at 

 the same time. A bar-shoe with a clip drawn 

 up at each heel will not only keep the shoe but 

 the heels of the foot in place. If a horse has 

 been injured in a hind foot and it is found 

 necessary to put a pad on that foot, a toe- 

 cap bar-shoe will hold it in place ; and it 

 will only require four nails at most to put it on. 

 If I owned a trotter with a long, low, gliding 

 motion behind and his heels were low and his 

 frog" wide and prominent — you recognize the 

 foot and tne action — I would shoe him with a 

 capped-shoe, convexed a little or grooved across 

 the toe, wnth low, flat heel-calks tapered down 

 to the shoe, which I would make into a bar 

 shoe, and under this I would put a thin, hard, 

 aluminum pad or plate, and shod thus he would 

 get the money. When he went forward there 

 would be nothing to stop the stride, when he 

 reversed there would be something at the toe 

 to hold him. The cap on the shoe would keep 

 it from driving back and the thin, aluminum 

 plate would protect the frog from injury or ex- 

 cessive pressure that would have a tendency 



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