go to work with the lines and whip endeavoring to balance 

 up matters, and cruelly abuse the dumb animals for what 

 they were not responsible, but asked me to take a look at 

 them. This thing of balancing faulty action with the lines 

 and whip is a thing of the past, and he who thinks it can 

 be done has stopped, he may be one of the know-alls and 

 if so is past redemption and will have to be regenerated to 

 be successful at the profession. 



XLVII. SIDEWEIGHT SHOES. 



Sideweight shoes are used with good results on horses 

 that wing in to their knees or knee hitters. Apply the 

 weighty side of shoe on the inside of foot, fix the outside of 

 the foot from the center of toe to the outside heel the 

 lowest, it will be good in some cases to have the outside 

 web of shoe only one-half as thick as that of the inside, 

 the thinner the outside the better for the winging in. For 

 paddling out the sideweight shoe is used with the weight 

 on the outside of the foot, be sure and fix the foot by 

 lowering the inside of foot from center of toe back to the 

 inside heel, have the inside of foot lower than the outside 

 for a paddler, and have the outside of foot lower than the 

 inside for a front shin, knee and arm hitter. A hind foot 

 has to be fixed the lowest on the inside for speedy-cutting, 

 shin and hock hitting. A sideweight shoe is used a lot for 

 speedy-cutting, shin and hock hitting, but if the feet can 

 be proprely leveled low enough on the insides, many horses 

 will go clean, or good gaited without the sideweight shoe, 

 as it is the extra high inside of hind feet that causes the 

 closing up of the hind action that makes all the trouble. 



In many cases to help matters as to speedy-cutting, 

 shin and hock hitting the front action has to be examined. 

 The horse may have too much or not enough front action 

 to work in harmony with the hind action. If he is going 



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