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and being supported by bone of due size, completes thei well formed 



Foot* 



Almost any ground would suit such a hoof and foot; but dry 

 and elevated ground I apprehend is more suiting the Constitution of 

 the horse and bis feet. 



The High or Miile Foot. This kindof Hoof is narrower thanthe formal-, 

 and perfectly cylindrical, more upright, and in general of a harder and 

 more compacted hörn; white stripes, or broad perpendicular ribbands, 

 are often seen with these. The frog is smaller and much raised, as 

 is the sole more concave: perhaps the best calculated for being used, 

 without defence of any. I have thought the chesnut coloured horses 

 were more subject to this sort of hoof. 



The Large Lumpy Hoof. Bythis inelegant, but expressive terra, lintend 

 to denote a hoof, in which the foot seems half buried and sunk as it 

 were; this arises from the bones and cartilages being small, with the 

 hoof capacious, and also in general thick and heavy. Horses with this 

 structure of the hoof and foot move in a peculiar manner as though 

 swinging a weight ; and if they fall, fall desperately. This form of hoof 

 is not unfrequent in coach horses; but is not confined to them. 



The Small Hoof and Projecting Coronet. The hoof here embracing the 

 foot very closely, is smaller, strait, and stout; the coronets, as thouglr 

 squeezed, overhang the hoof I have thought horses rather less than the 

 middle size, flery in temper, and of a black color, were more subject to 

 this raake. The bones also appear too gross for the dimensions of the 

 hoof; if any good could be done by darap relaxing situations during the 

 growth of the hoof, one should expect this kind of foot would be the 

 most likely to be benefited by it. 



The Trumpet Hoof. By this I understand, a Hoof naiTow about the 

 Coronet, of a rounded figure, and wideningdownwards conically; this sort 

 of close embrace about the upper parts of the foot appears to occasion 

 pain and fever: it is in general I believe not a natural defect, but the 

 consequence of shoeing. 



The Fiat Hoof. Extraordinary flatness is sometimes seen in hoofs, and 

 such would be rendered still flatter, and more feeble, by exposure in low, 

 damp, relaxing situations; this kind appear to bear the effects of the 

 nailed shoe better than others, and I believe may even in some cases be 



* Tlie inclination of this Hoof from the perpendicular U ubout 33 degrees. 



