Onerkeaching or Clinking. 117 



overreaching or clinking. 



An over-reach is a tread upon the heel of the coronet 

 of the fore foot by the shoe of the correspondmg hind 

 foot, and is either inflicted by the toe, or by the inner edge 

 of the inside of the shoe. 



A writer in the N. E. Farmer, who is a blacksmith, 

 cures overreaching horses, and incseases their trotting 

 speed fifteen or twenty seconds per mile, by the follow- 

 ing mode of shoeing, which increases the motion of the 

 forward feet, and retards the motion of the hind ones. 

 He makes the toe-caulks very low, standing a very little 

 under, and the shoes set as far backward as convenient 

 on the forward feet, with high heel-caulks, so as to let- 

 them roll over as soon as possible. On the hind feet, 

 the heel-caulk is low and the toe-caulk high and project 

 ing forward. Horses shod thus, travel clean, with no 

 click. 



PAWING. 



Some hot and iritatible horses are restless, even in the 

 stable, and paw frequently and violently ; shackles are 

 the only remedy, with a chain sufficiently long to enable 

 the horse to shift his position, but they must be taken oif 

 at night to enable the horse to lie down. — Youatt. 



SLIPPING THE HALTER. 



This is a trick at which many horses are so clever, that 

 scarcely a night passes without their getting loose. It 

 is a very serious habit, for it enables the horse some- 

 times to gorge himself with food, to the imminent dan- 

 ger of staggers ; or it exposes him, as he wanders about, 

 to be kicked and injured by the other horses, while his 

 restlesness will often keep the whole team awake. If 



