No. 15. 



Number 15. This cut is a pretty good likeness of the 

 fore feet of ''Jay-Eye-See;' 2.06 34, and ''Direct^' 2.05^. 

 when the author first t^ok them in hand to shoe. This 

 is a characteristic foot of the family that those two 

 horses are sprung from, for they are Uncle (Jay-Eye-See) 

 and Nephew (Direct). Jay-Eye-See being by Dictator, 

 brother to Dexter, Mr. Bonner^s great horse— and he 

 was lame when Mr. Bonner bought him— and Direct 

 by Director, also a son of Dictator. The author says 

 a characteristic foot of the family, so it is. That 

 family had small feet— supposedly an inheritance 

 from the Star mare, the dam of Dexter, Dictator, 

 etc.— but really good feet, and they required a great 

 deal of care to keep them from becoming contracted, 

 and when once they got to be wrong, it was an awful 

 job to get them back again, for they were hardy and 

 unyielding. The author remembers well the trouble 

 he had to get the feet of Jay-Eye-See started to grow- 

 ing, the tightness around the coronet was such that 

 it seemed as though the hide had grown tight to the 

 bones, but it finally yielded and the cast-iron, clever, 

 splendid little fellow, (gamey and perfect in disposi- 

 tion) got to having pretty good feet. The author did 

 not have so much to do with Direct^ he was a young 

 horse about 6 years it seems, and his feet yielded to 

 treatment more readily than the older one, so that he 

 only shod him twice, the second shoeing being only a 



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