HORSESHOEING. 



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eluding the outer buttress. If the inner half of the wall is 

 deficient in length it must be raised above the outer half by 

 applying a shoe which is thinner in its outer than in its inner 

 branch. The inner toe should be left long. 



The shoe should be light, without heel-calks, but may 

 OQxvj a low, cun^ed grab (" grab," is a low, straight or curved, 



Fig. 151. 



Fig. 152. 



Left hind hoof of a toe-narrow pacer, shod 

 to prevent crossfiring: a, dotted line indi- 

 cating outer border of the hoof; b, long bent 

 outer branch; c, short, thin inner branch; d, 

 inner wall extending beyond the shoe; /, 

 line from which inner branch is feather- 

 edged. The shoe is of even thickness from 

 6 to /at inner toe; but from latter point to c 

 diminishea to a feather edge. 



Front view of hoof and shoe depicted in 

 Fig. 151: a, outer branch fitted very full 

 and bevelled base wide; b, inner branch 

 diminishing in thickness from i nner toe c, 

 to its termination at the inner quarter. 

 Designed to favor "breaking over" near 

 centre of the toe, and to widen the gait. 



toe- or heel-calk on a racing plate) running from the second 

 inner toe nail to the centre of the toe. The inner branch is to 

 he. fitted flush with the wall from the centre of the toe back 

 to the quarter, back of which point it gradually extends beyond 

 the wall, i.e., is fitted full ; and terminates well back of the 

 buttress. This inner branch should be from one-fourth to three- 

 eighths of an inch longer than the outer branch. The long 



