liability to singlefoot, and fixing hind feet this way 

 lengthens the stride and helps to confine the action to the 

 trot longer and purer. 



V. SHIN HITTING OF THE FRONT LEGS. 



A foot left too high on the outside from centre of 

 toe back to the outside heel will cause this. Some travel 

 very close and others wing in : this winging in is not al- 

 ways because of an imperfect or unbalanced foot, some- 

 times it is caused by a deformity of the leg, or a con- 

 traction of the muscles or ligaments, sometimes they will 

 be either longer or stronger on one side of the leg than 

 on the other, which has a tendency to control winging 

 or paddling. To fix a foot that is hitting the shins of 

 the front legs, shorten the toe to a natural length foot, 

 while doing this keep lowering the outside of the foot, 

 leaving the inside of the foot quite a bit higher, by actual 

 measurement, in some cases a quarter of an inch higher or 

 longer is not too much. Shoe with a plain shoe or a side 

 weight shoe with the heavy side of shoe on the inside of 

 each foot, the heavy or wider side of the shoe will pre- 

 vent sinking in the ground, which will help matters. Bevel 

 or hot rasp the inside edge of shoe from the inside toe 

 back to the quarters. Shoe with the weight that the horse 

 goes best with. 



VI. HOW TO MAKE A SHOE TO PREVENT 

 WINGING IN. 



Make a heavy side weight shoe, the same kind of 

 shoe as for a paddler but the weight or heavy side of 

 shoe will have to be on the inside of the foot. Fix the 

 feet, according to article in this book on winging in, to 

 receive this shoe. Bevel or round off the inside toe back 

 to quarters on this shoe. With the foot properly fixed 



