DEALERS' TRICKS 131 



" Can't what ? " said the owner. 



" Why, don't you know her ? " said Tom. " That 

 mare has a mark of 2 -06 J. You owned her when she 

 made it. She is Holly rood Alice, with her tail thinned 

 and her coat bleached." 



" The mare you raced for me ? " 



" The same," said Tommy. 



A few days later it was learned that Hollyrood Alice, 

 after a trip across the Atlantic, had been returned, 

 ostensibly for another trip in the slow classes under a 

 faded coat. Failing in that, after a few feelers had been 

 thrown out, she was sold by coincidence to her former 

 owner. 



Always pay careful attention when examining a 

 horse's legs that they have not been fired for any old- 

 standing complaint. 



If the shoe is worn at the toe look out for old sprains 

 in the back tendons. 



Always remember that a sound horse wears his shoes 

 down as level as a sixpence all round. 



A horse that brushes behind can easily be altered or 

 cured by having a shoe made the same thickness at the 

 toe as the outside heel, and setting up the inside heel 

 with a feather edge — the result being a wider gait in 

 the hind action. A horse that clicks, or forges, can 



