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heiglit of summer when tlie ground is hard, to put long- 

 shoes on horses in strong work, their feet will be found 

 to be in a good state to have such shoes applied. But 

 I must again advise, that the long shoes should be 

 made of more substance and cover than they usually 

 were. If made of the same substance and cover as 

 those applied to the feet of race-horses turned out of 

 training, and used as hacks on the road, I am of opi- 

 nion, that their feet would suffer less from concussion, 

 when in training on hard ground. Aged liorses in 

 common use, as coach and post horses, or hacks on the 

 road, that have their feet at all out of order, can no 

 more work in light neat shoes, than an old man with 

 tender feet could travel over hard roads, in a thin pair 

 of pumps. 



In the fourth plate, figure 4, is represented a foot 

 the front part of which is pared to receive the short 

 shoe; the heels, quarters, and frog, are left sufficiently 

 high, so as to be level with the short shoe when put on. 

 In race-horses that have strong, upright feet, they soon 

 get sufficiently high for the purpose, unless their heels 

 are much pared every time they are shod. When the 

 quarters and heels are as above described, the smith, in 

 paring the foot to receive the short shoe, is to do it in 

 the same manner as he would, were he going to apply 

 the long shoe; only observing, that instead of levelling 

 the foot as for the long shoe, he i§ to leave the ends of 

 the heels of the foot, and the quarters to the ends of 

 the heels of the short shoe, a little, or as much higher 

 as may be necessary to bring the heels of the shoe 



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