202 PEECEPT AND PEACTICE. 



he will, he will find he cannot bring it in passing 

 close to the right standing leg. 



I had the horse alluded to shod with a shoe thick 

 on the outside. I did not by this remove the stand- 

 ing leg further out of the way, but I gave the passing 

 one a direction far away from the one it formerly 

 struck. It succeeded, and I superintended the shoe- 

 ing three or four other horses that cut in the same 

 way, with similar beneficial results. I am happy to 

 say they were not mine. 



I do not anticipate this plan might answer as re- 

 gards the hind legs (though I never tried it), but I 

 judge by this — it is easy to turn or twist the hind 

 ankles of the horse out of the way ; but it would be 

 difficult, if not impossible, to throw the body out of 

 its equilibrium by anything we could do by the hinder 

 parts ; and it is by doing this the effect I have men- 

 tioned is to be produced. 



I promised to mention something relative to boots 

 in this article. I do so ; but, while there are so 

 many clever men who make them for racehorses, I 

 shall do much better for my readers in recommend- 



