paddocks, and you would seldom see them hurt themselves, 

 but put the harness on, hitch them up, and start them at 

 speed and take a pull of 75 or 100 pounds on their lower 

 jaw and the trouble would begin. The directions in this 

 article for fixing the foot for knee and arm hitting are 

 also the surest remedy for horses that toe out badly, a 

 fault that is so objectionable to all horsemen. If you use 

 a sideweight shoe on a front foot to prevent shin, knee and 

 arm hitting, the heavy part of shoe should be on the inside 

 of foot, but if you leave the outside of the foot one-sixteenth 

 or one-eighth of an inch higher than the inside, you will 

 be working against the results you are looking for. 



It looks strange to many people that an outside-weight 

 shoe to a front foot has a tendency to make a horse wing 

 in, and the same shoe applied to a hind foot will widen 

 the hind action, with the foot fixed for that purpose. If 

 you can fix the foot properly to control the line of action 

 that you want, you will surely accomplish something. You 

 should know what angle suits the action best. The foot 

 should be symmetrical in shape to conform with the coffin 

 bone, have no more foot on one side of the frog than on 

 the other side, and the bearing surface to hang so as the 

 foot will land on and leave the ground as square or level as 

 possible. 



IX. JOGGING A KNEE KNOCKER WINTER AND 

 SPRING, AND THE BEST WAY TO SHOE 

 AND FIX THE FOOT TO DEVELOP 

 THE MUSCLES. 

 Lower the outside of the foot of the winging in leg, 

 and keep it the lozvest. Shoe the foot with a very light 

 shoe, plain or bar shoe, have a side pocket weight made that 

 will carry from 6 to 9 ounces of lead with a spur on it; cut 

 or burn a hole in the bottom edge of the foot midway be- 

 tween toe and heel for the spur, buckle it tight to foot, the 



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