keep a record of these things no one can tell you what your 

 horse needs, for you will know it yourself far better. I i" a 

 change takes place and it is not physical it may have oc- 

 curred in the shop if he has been shod recently, and as you 

 have kept a record of his feet and shoes and harness you 

 can find out by reference to it 



The last time I was in Lexington, Ky. I was working 

 at my trade, shoeing horses, when I was approached by a 

 gentleman by the name of Saunders, he said to me that he 

 was told by some of his friends to see me about shoeing a 

 cross-firing pacer that he had and he also said that I was 

 recommended to him very highly. I told him I could tell 

 him what I could do for the horse after seeing the con- 

 dition of the feet, if I could help him or not, so he had the 

 horse led around to my tent to be looked at. After looking 

 at the feet and shoeing, I told him I could help that horse 

 wonderfully, so the next day my subject was led around 

 for me to operate on. I had learned that this horse cross- 

 fired so bad they could hardly keep quarterboots on him, 

 and they w r ere afraid to work him on account of crossfiring. 

 He was entered to start at the meeting but was a little 

 short of work. His feet were in bad shape according to the 

 calipers and foot -adjuster and to my eye. I fixed this 

 horse's feet to pace without cross-firing and truly, accord- 

 ing to the prescription given in this book for cross-firing. 

 That horse responded to the treatment instantly and the 

 horse paced fine with no more cross-firing. He was worked 

 a couple of times during the week and went all right, and 

 during the meeting he was going so good they agreed to 

 start him. He started in the race and if my memory serves 

 me right he finished second the first heat, the second heat 

 several horses finished ahead of him, I do not remember 

 how many, but when they came out for the third heat the 

 driver of this horse was called up in the stand to watch this 

 horse while a driver by the name of Mike Bowerman piloted 



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