48 ARTISTIC HORSE-SHOEINa. 



the foot he msij be able to go, say, a half mile all rig-ht, but 

 in trotting- a full mile is liable to strain the cords of his legs, 

 because his muscle has not been cultivated up to the point 

 of carrying this extra weight successfully. 



I consider this the best shoe ever made to balance the 

 action of pacers. By this I mean, if you want a pacer to 

 trot use this form of a toe-weight with a side- weight behind. 

 By shoeing in this way I can convert an}^ pacer into a 

 trotter when it is thought desirable to do so. In many 

 cases heavy horses that pace can be made to trot faster 

 than they can pace. With light horses it often happens 

 that they can pace faster than they can trot, so that it is 

 not always desirable to chang-e their action. 



Fig. 16 is a toe- weight shoe concaved on the g-round sur- 

 face, the object being to prevent the horse from throwing" 

 g-ravel in the ej^es of the driver. 



SHOE TO PREVENT INTERFERING. 



Fig. 17 represents a front foot shoe for interfering horses. 

 There is no question in regard to stopping- any interfering- 

 horse with this shoe. The main secret in overcoming inter- 

 ference is to get a direct side weight. All the weight that 

 passes the point of the frog on the other side deadens the 

 weight we have on the outside and tends to overcome the 

 attemptto produce a side-weight shoe. This point should 

 be carefully remembered. 



In making this shoe I take say, ten inches of iron for the 

 shoe and bring it out of the fire with one-half of it hot. I 

 use my fuller just half Avay, fullering- down as thin as I 

 want it. Then with the hammer draw the inside web out, 



