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overlap sufficiently, at the heel, the angle formed by 

 the frog with the wall of the hoof, but falling short, 

 throws the whole pressure inside this angle. This is 

 what produces corns. For racing, certainly, and perhaps 

 for hunting, the short shoe may be inevitable, but there 

 is no reason whatever why the roadster should be shod 

 in this fashion, nor even a cavalry horse, except that 

 people will persist in either sitting directly on the horse's 

 withers, or when they sit on the loins, transferring their 

 weight to the shoulder, through the medium of stirrups 

 hung far forward, every time they rise in the saddle 

 when trotting. Corns and broken knees are totally un- 

 known in the Austrian cavalry, where the shoe is given 

 a solid bearing on the angle of the wall of the hoof at 

 the heel. 



