WEIGHT ON THE INSIDE. xlvii 



The shoes jKit on Inca weighed eleven ounces each, the inner side 

 being wide enough to give twice the weight of metal, and with these 

 there was a manifest improvement in his speed and manner of going. 

 He had a record of 2:32, or about that, when Goldsmith got him, 

 and after the change in his shoes he trotted at Santa Rosa in the 

 2:30 class, winning the first heat in 2:27, was second to Albert W in 

 the second heat in 2:27, and won the third in 2:27f, Albert "W win- 

 ning the race. 



From Anteeo wearing the outside of his shoe while the inner was 

 scarcely bright, and also thinking the three-quai-ter shoe so much bet- 

 ter for the hind foot, I used that i)attern. 



Becoming convinced, however, that the weight on the outside was 

 inimical, I had full hind shoes made, the outer side nan-ow and thick, 

 the inner thin and wide, the object being to make the weight equal, 

 and keep the foot as nearly level as possible during the period of 

 wear. This did not make a perceptible difference, and so I returned 

 to the three-quarter shoe, covering the outside in order to have a rest 

 for the heel-strap of the scalping-boot. With the steel coming on 

 the inside there was so little wear of the metal that in ten days or 

 two weeks the foot would have quite a cant to the outside. This 

 was in a measure obviated by leaving the inner side bare, and I 

 deemed it better to guard against a wrong twist than to obtain the 

 slight benefit of weight on the inside. But, after finding out that a 

 scalping-boot could be kept in place without the projecting heel, I 

 decided to put tips on behind, as the only place he wore much of the 

 metal away was at the toe and about half-way back on the outside, and 

 a short distance back of the toe on the inside. That part of the tip 

 was miide wider in order to equalize the weight, and they were set 

 on December 20th. "While wearing these the only work he had was 

 jogging on the road, driven by the man who takes care of him, and 

 he reported that he handled himself better than in anything he had 

 worn before. On the 18th of January I pulled ofi" the hind tips, which 

 were worn almost to an edge, put on front tips, weighing three ounces 

 each, and I had to cut away his heels a good deal to bring them on 

 a level with the tip. The hind feet were left bare, and the edges 

 rounded. I moved him through the stretch the next day, and he 



