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is not brought to the startuig-post in tlie perfection 

 of which he is capable. 



In thus inviting the attention of the sporting 

 world, /or the first time, to the consideration of the 

 hind foot, as to its efficiency for the purposes of 

 the utmost speed, I beg to remind the reader, that 

 I am only discussing the point with reference to its 

 elasticity, lameness being wholly out of the question. 

 If the existence of this defect of the hind foot be 

 admitted, surely no one will have the temerity to 

 contend that it is of no consequence to the race- 

 horse, and that it offers no impediment to his 

 speed or check to his stride. 



Let it be remembered that, accordins; to the laws 

 of progression, the hinder limbs are tlie grand pro- 

 pelling agents. Trainers are well aware of this fact 

 by experience, without ever having minutely traced 

 cause and effect. 



As all trained horses in this country have hi- 

 therto been fettered irrespectively, I mean to assert, 

 that the most experienced man cannot yet deter- 

 mine the degree of velocity with which the ordinary 

 English race-horse may be made to gallop by the 

 aid of this reformation in the shoeing' art. 



t:ovi>To\ & Ki 1 1 iiii:, I'lUNTiins, miudi.k sirkut, i omuin. 



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