114 TIPS AND TOE-WEIGHTS. 



other illustrations. Antevolo was foaled on May 12tli, 1881, his 

 birth-place being the celebrated breeding-farm, Palo Alto. He came 

 all right, and the first time I saw him, May 19th, I considered that 

 he was as good-looking and as well-formed a colt as I had ever seen 

 in a trotting-bred one. He ran with his dam on the foothills, and 

 was so full of life and play that he was continually gallojiing. 



There being a good deal of gravel and hard ground, he wore his 

 feet away, the near one being so badly broken that the toe and part 

 of the sole were worn entirely through. The foot was so sore that he 

 could not touch it to the ground, and he either went on three legs or 

 walked on the front pai-t of the ankle joint. It appeared as though 

 it would be an act of mei'cy to kill him, but Frank Covey, knowing 

 how highly he was valued, gave him every attention. 



There was quite an improvement ; though, when he was brought 

 home, December 21, 1881, it was the opinion of every one who saw 

 him that he would be entirely worthless for anything but a stock 

 horse. 



The foot had certainly a bad appearance. The horn, in place of 

 having a natural angle at the toe from the coronet, inclined in the 

 wrong direction, so that the toe was nearly on a straight line with 

 the cannon bone. Tliough the heel was very high, it did not touch 

 the ground, and there was an enlai'gement above the coronet like a 

 ringbone, excepting that it was restricted to the front. The day after 

 he came home I c\^t the horn away at the heel until it was no higher 

 than the frog, and when clearing away the horn at the toe, which 

 was turned under, overlapping the sole, the blood poured ou.t in a 

 stream, and I then discovered that for a space of at least two inches 

 there was a gap half an inch in width between the sole and the wall. 

 In outwai'd appearance there was very little resemblance to a natural 

 foot. The toe was straight across without any curvature, and the 

 wall on each side where it came to the ground was also straight. At 

 the coronet the heel was abnormally wide. 



When the foot was pared I drew the outline of it by holding a 

 piece of paisteboard against the sole, as he could not stand on it; and, 

 when returned to hi^ stall, he limped back on the other legs, holding 

 that one yp. 



