WAY OF GOING— THE FUNCTION 



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or drivers, each fundamentally correct in his methods, there is 

 always one who is capable of better results than the others. 



Mechanical appliances are chiefly accessories to the handling 

 and schooling of horses. They consist of the bit, shoes, weight, 

 and hopples. 



Bit. — The influence of the bit is strongly suggestive of one 

 or the other ways of going, as discussed under equitation. 



Shoes. — The style of the shoe and the dressing of the foot 

 for its application have considerable influence on the way of 



Fig. 29.— Bent, sabre, or sickle Fig. 30.— Cow-hocked. Fig. 31.— Bandy-legged or 

 hock. wide at the hocks. 



going. By shortening or lengthening the too, the breaking over 

 is either facilitated or retarded, with a consequent shortening 

 or lengthening of the stride ; by raising or lowering the inner or 

 outer quarter, the point at which breaking over takes place may 

 be regulated, ^vithin limits. 



^Ye^gllt. — By either putting weight on or taking it off the 

 foot, the stride is heightened or lowered. Weight may be secured 

 either by permitting an abnormal gTOwth of the foot itself or in 

 the shoe. Weight fixed at the toe promotes extension on the prin- 

 ciple of the pendulum, the weight coming into play toward the 



