after in his early education. I know him to get trotters 

 from pacing mares, and nothing but trotters from all kinds 

 of mares, his power to transmit the trotting gait to his pro- 

 duce is something wonderful, and his only pacers arc those 

 that were forced by the unsportsmanlike use of hopples. 



XXVII. NEGLECTED HIND FEET. 



The hind feet on both trotters and pacers are the 

 worst neglected when receiving their preparation in train- 

 ing and racing. Is your trotter or pacer going rough gaited 

 with his hind legs? Is your trotter hitting his coronets, is 

 he speedy cutting, is he hitting his shins or hocks ? Is your 

 pacer hitting his front shoes, or cross-firing? All this un- 

 balanced action comes from an unbalanced, unprepared, and 

 unweighted foot, most times — nearly nine out of ten — from 

 cutting the outside of hind foot too low from center of 

 toe back to outside heel leaving the inside the highest, which 

 wall control the line of action of the leg after the foot 

 leaves the ground. 



Lots of people do not know this and lots of horsemen 

 do not know this until they get into trouble and commence 

 experimenting with some fandangle shoes, long heels on 

 one side and short heels on the opposite side, or some 

 projection on some part of shoes that creates strain and 

 friction trying to overcome a badly fixed foot or feet. If 

 your trotter or pacer is doing any of the above stunts, the 

 insides of his hind foot or feet are a lot too high for the 

 outside. Cut the inside of hind feet down as low as they 

 will stand, low enough to change the angle of the feet, to 

 make the feet or angle longer to leave the ground from. If 

 his toes are the right length do not touch them. 



The best shoe for your trotter in this case is a side- 

 weight shoe, a little heavier than he has been carrying — 

 two or three ounces heavier. The best shoe for the pacer 



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