332 THE horse's rescue. 



it is not done in the right way. Compare this horse with the one in 

 cut No. 1, and 7011 can easj^ see why his machinery he cannot run. 

 And after working on the horse forty-one years I found out how all 

 this mischief was done after I got control and master of the horse's 

 feet. If I do say it, balancing np horses I was and now am hard to 

 beat. The opposition I meet with I do not mind. I can balance 

 these horses and put them in harmony of action very nicely botli 

 before and behind. 



Cut No. 4, or plate of cuts, is to show the base, or foundation, of 

 the horse. This is to be h)oked at as though the horse had walked 

 off and left the bottom of his feet with shoes on, the sole and frog 

 all there. The object of this is to more clearly show and convey the 

 condition — the foundation — of the most of horses are in, caused by 

 unequal weight on the double heel, and showing what shape they 

 will assume, caused by that and not bemg properly dressed and cared 

 for. You can see there is not a true foot there ; they are all imper- 

 fect and untrue in some way, and in many and different, no two 

 alike. The two feet that the lines start from at the toe are to repre- 

 sent the hind feet. The drive-wheels on the horse's hind feet are 

 intended to run on the outside of the forward wheels if he is natural, 

 and nature has made him so. If nature has a chance they will run 

 in that way. If his feet are run over it will change these lines from 

 a straight line in degrees according to how much his feet are run over. 

 The top of heel is the place to look. There will be all degrees on the 

 same horse from the same cause; the weight v*'ill turn the toe in or 

 out, the same on all the feet. And this is a very important point to 

 look to if you want your horse to move well. Equalizing the weiglit 

 on the feet is one of the most important things to be looked to in 

 dressing and ironing a horse's feet. If it is not done properly it will 

 tarn the toe one way or the other. In driving twenty miles, and some 

 feet in less, it throws the ankle in or out. If it should throw the 

 ankles out. the toe would go in. If both feet should go in that way 

 (I mean a pair), they would cross lines, as shown in this plate, and 

 there are all degrees of that. Sometimes, when not very bad in that 

 wav, these lines would cross some rods ahead of the horse. Wheii ' 

 the horse is in this way he will grab his shoes and heels and con- 

 stantly be running over himself. Sometimes he is run over in pair.'*, 

 both forward feet one way and both hind feet the opposite. When he 

 is in that way there is danger of his falling if he is hurried, and liable 

 to if not. The fact is his feet are all turned one way or the other. 



