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foi' track purposes, and on ordinary country roads, they would meet 

 with all the requirements, I would not have been disappointed had 

 they been found wanting after so severe a test. As stated hereto- 

 fore, XX has only worn two pairs of front shoes in five years. He 

 has been in constant use on these streets and roads, and latterly he has 

 been given long and rapid drives with scarcely a day's intermission. 

 The wall and bars are worn nearly level with the frog, though there 

 is plenty of horn, and the frog is full. There is not a particle of 

 discoloration, or indication of bruising ; his feet ai'e cool, and the 

 tendon which was injured when weai"ing one set of shoes, at the time 

 " Spanish Charley " had him in training at Sacramento, is now as 

 " clean" as it ever was, and the most skillful veteiinarian would fail 

 to decide which leg had met with the injuiy. 



The three-quarter shoe will entirely obviate the difficulty Dr. Tal- 

 iaferro mentions. 



The illustration is a copy of one of a pair of shoes made after a 

 pattern sent to William Zartman, Petaluma. The intention was to 

 use it with the toe-weight which Mr. Zartman has patented, and by 

 getting them made at headquarters an assurance was given that the 

 spur would be properly made, and the shoes such as were wanted. 

 As the various kinds of toe-weights, their uses and abuses, will form 

 a distinct chapter of the treatise, it is unnecessary to say more at 

 present than that the Petaluma is meritorious, equaling the best in 



