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ANIMAL MANAGEMENT. 



The weight being so considerable, as light a shoe as possible should 

 be adopted under all circumstances, but it must wear long enough to 

 prevent too frequent shoeing, or the wall will break from constant nailing. 

 Unfortunately the two requisites in an ideal shoe, lightness and long 

 wear, are opposites which it is evidently impossible to combine in iron, 

 and all that can be done in practice is to keep the weight as low as the 

 average amount of work will admit. 



The rate of wear on macadamized roads is increased when the surface 

 is wet, while road work under all circumstances wears out shoes very 

 much quicker than cross country journeys. 



The wear of hind shoes is greater than of fore, and the outside of the 



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Fig. 52. 

 Foot prepared for Charlier shoe. 



shoe than the inside ; with rare exceptions the outside toe is the first 

 place to be worn through. 



Many horses wear their shoes much faster than others, the increase 

 being sometimes more than twice as much. With ordinary shoes tested 

 on roads, the individual difference will vary between 100 to 350 miles 

 under precisely similar conditions. 



Race- 

 horse 

 shoes. 



Hunter 

 and hack 

 shoes. 



Various Patterns of Shoes. 



Racehorses are generally shod during their training with the lightest 

 class of concave, fullered shoe, weighing about six ounces, but for the 

 actual race specially light " plates " from two to four ounces are put on. 



Hunters a7id Hacks. — For both these classes the concave, fullered 

 pattern, either flat or with small calkins and wedge heels, is the rule, the 

 toes of the hind shoes being frequently " square " to lessen the chance 



