164 CAKE AM) TKAIXING OF THOTTEUS AND PACERS. 



that three or four should carry. A horse that is 

 allowed to wear his feet naturally seldom is 

 troubled with lameness. Take, for instance, the 

 western mustang. He may be called on to carry a 

 heavy man fifty to seventy miles a day, yet is sel- 

 dom lame from tendon trouble. He will become 

 heartbroken before his tendons give out. 



In shoeing race horses we are liable to get away 

 from the natural angle. One authority states this 

 is about 47 degrees in front and 54 degrees behind. 

 By the way, I notice, from the recent book pub- 

 lished by "The Horseman," entitled "Care and 

 Training of Trotters," that in the years 191 1, 

 1912 and 1913 the average angle of the prominent 

 colt trotters and pacers of the year, 63 cases 

 in all, was 48^ degrees in front and 522/^ behind. 

 The length of the toes will depend on the size of 

 the horse 



One other thought, and then I must close. A 

 lot of us trainers use a body wash between heats. 

 I am commencing to wonder what good the body 

 wash does when the horse is perspiring profusely 

 and throws ofif the wash as quickly as it is applied. 



Walter Cox on Warming Up for a Race. 



'T am not at all sure that we have got this mat- 

 ter of warming up horses for a race figured out 

 right," Walter Cox said to me one day when the 

 conversation had turned to the question of how 



