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front shoes, of nineteen ounces each, were worn to extend his stride 

 but as that was not shortened by the reduction to twelve and a half 

 ounces, a further subtraction would have had no ill effect. The race- 

 horse strides further with plates on his feet than when he is wearing 

 traitiing shoes, and though the weight gave Albatross a longer stride, 

 it was from a directly opposite reason, viz : a lack of knee-action. 

 The natural super-exertion, in Fullerton, was heightened by the 

 heavier shoe, and, as his stride was not curtailed by a contrary 

 course, the inference is just which contemplates a still more radical 

 change. And then comes the question of the effect of the weight on 

 the heel, which the bar-shoe gives, in contradistinction to the weight 

 on the under part of the toe, in the tip, or on the front part of the 

 wall, in the toe- weight ; but the consideration of these abstruse 

 problems will come in more appropriately hereafter. 



