CAKE AND TRAINING OF TItOT'l'KKS AND PACERS. 



Chapter VII— The Shoes Worn by Colts of 

 1911 to 1914. 



BY ARTHUR C. THOMAS. 



[Note — The following is a new chanter adfletl to the second editirn 

 of "Care and Training of Trotters and Pacers." The chapt3r is 

 made up largely of matter appearing in Chapter VI of the first 

 edition, but has been enlarged, rearranged, rewritten and informa- 

 tion added concerning the shoeing of the 1914 colts.] 



HE shoeing of the fastest coh 

 trotters of each year is always 

 a matter of interest to horse- 

 men, and is also a valuable in- 

 dex to the gradual changes in 

 the farrier's art. In the Christ- 

 mas numbers of "The Horse- 

 man," from 191 1 to 1914, a widely read feature 

 was the annual article on "How the Babies of the 

 Year Were Shod." 



From these articles we have compiled the fol- 

 lowing tables. The first column of figures gives 

 weight of toe weight (if any), second column 

 weight of front shoes, third column angle of front 

 feet, fourth column length of front feet, fifth col- 

 umn weight of hind shoes, sixth column angle of 

 hind feet, seventh column length of hind feet. 



Table I— Trotters. 



Yearling Trotter of 1912. 

 Wt. V,'t. Anu". Lgth. 

 Toe front front frmt 



Airdale. 2: 5vi 



Srarklo Wntt<. 

 U. Forbes. 2:2r 



wt. 

 



shoe. 



5% 



Wt. An?. Lgth. 

 bind hind hind 

 feet. feet. shoe. feet. feet. 



4!) :^i4 



Yeailing Trotters cf 1913. 



2 n r.i) * 



2 4 Vi 50 3 14 



21/0 



SVs 



