not less, to change the line of action, 14 ounces will be 

 better than 12 ounces, but the hind foot will have to be 

 the lowest on the inside, if anything, as it was a high 

 inside of foot that first started the trouble. A horse that is 

 hitching should not be speeded until the action or gait of 

 the faulty leg has been balanced, for it is so easily done. 

 A driver who will try and drive the hitching out of a horse 

 with the lines and whip is just as much unbalanced as is 

 the dumb animal. 



XLIX. POCKET WEIGHTS. 



A pocket weight can be used jogging a knee knocker or 

 paddler in the fall, winter and spring, to develop the muscle 

 required and to prevent those faulty lines of action, and you 

 can use from five to ten ounces, as the case may need to the 

 foot of the faulty gaited leg. But be sure and shoe the 

 foot or feet very light, and prepare the feet according to 

 the chapter in this book on winging in or paddling out. If 

 the feet are not properly prepared to help the pocket weight 

 to control the faulty line of action, one will be working 

 against the other, and the results will be unsatisfactory, 

 but if properly performed as to foot fixing and weighting, 

 and a little time to bring about the change results will be 

 good. The hole in foot to receive the spur of the pocket 

 weight should be about half way between toe and heel to 

 get best results. The pocket weight should be used on 

 inside of foot for winging in and on outside of foot for a 

 paddler. 



L. ANKLE HITTING OR INTERFERING. 



There are so many different causes for this that there 

 is no fixed rule in shoeing that will apply to all cases. I 

 have seen horses cutting their hind ankles from the fol- 

 lowing causes : the foot or feet too high on the inside, the 



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