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itself. The "pointing" of the foot here consists of 

 the toe's direction being in a Hne departing from 

 the straight line parallel to the general line of mo- 

 tion of the horse. That is to say, the foot will 

 travel in an inward curve toward the other leg. 

 I"he remedy lies (i) in widening the distance be- 

 tween the two fore feet by slightly raising the out- 

 side half of each foot, and (2) by causing an easy 

 break-over on outside toe of shoe. For that pur- 

 pose the outside web of the shoe may be beveled 

 or rounded and a bar or two calks may be set to- 

 ward outside toe. This outside breakover will 

 somewhat force the foot to "toe in" slightly, thus 

 counteracting the outward direction before ob- 

 served and usually resulting in a much reduced 

 curve toward the inside. The angle of the foot as 

 it is set down on the ground is not so outward and 

 the breakover appears on the soil as coming less 

 at the inside and more at the outside of the toe 

 proper. [Making the shoe a little wider or even 

 heavier on the outside will bring about less sink- 

 ing in and hence a more elevated position of foot, 

 and a roll on the outside toe and toward heel will 

 also help the intended breakover there. The sim- 

 ple principle involved in such a case is the reduc- 

 tion of the inward swing of the curve resulting 

 invariably from a breakover at the inside of the 

 toe. Of course in all cases the paring of the hoof 

 is the first thing to attend to, and here the lowering 

 of outside toe, leavino- the outside heel, and asfain 



