pacing colt begins to make speed, shoe to prevent slipping 



at both ends, with heel and toe calks on hind shoes. As a 

 rule they go high headed, it seems to suit the majority of 

 pacers. 



If your pacer begins to crossfire lower the inside of 

 hind feet but if you cannot lower the feet on the inside 

 raise the outside with the thickness of the shoe, thick on 

 outside and thin on inside. If you can lower the inside of 

 hind feet low enough, a plain shoe will do with calks. The 

 best shoe for a cross-firing pacer is a heavy sideweight 

 shoe, thin and rounded off on the inside toe. You do not 

 need any projections on this shoe, heel or toe, if the foot 

 is properly prepared to widen action. If your colt gets to 

 winging to his knees, lower the outside of front feet from 

 centre of toes to heel on outside. If your colt begins to pad- 

 dle with one front leg or the other, lower the inside of the 

 foot or feet as much as they will stand, this will leave the 

 outside toe the longest to leave the ground from, which, 

 when at speed, will prevent a lot of paddling. The lighter 

 the shoes on a paddler the better, but if he has to carry 

 some weight in his shoes to balance action, put all the 

 weight in the outside of his shoes. If you use a toe weight, 

 attach it near to the outside toe for better results. Pad- 

 dling is caused by the contraction of muscles on one side of 

 the leg, the same as winging in, and not always by bad 

 shoeing, the main thing is foot fixing. 



Some say there is nothing under the sun perfect. Foals 

 developing in the womb of their dam sometimes will be in 

 a cramped position, which contracts those muscles or liga- 

 ments that cause winging in or paddling out. As some of 

 the yearlings and weanlings show this faulty line of action 

 before ever being shod. I have seen yearlings that were 

 knee-knockers to begin with and you would think confirmed 

 ones and after one, two or three shoeings you could not 

 hear them knock their boots on the turns, and they would 



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