96 CABE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS. 



(AirdAle, V. Forbes and Judge Jones.) 

 Swedged shoe with square toe and heel calks 3 1 



(DiUon Axworthy, Homer -Baugbmac, Mahomet 



Watts and Burt Axworthy.) 

 Swedged bar shoe with heel calks 1 



(Manrico.) 

 Half swedged shoe 1 



(Ruby Watts.) 

 Half swedged shoe with heel calks 4 2, 



(Hall Mark, Luclle Spier, Sure Mike, Tilly Tip- 

 ton, Willow Mack, Miss De Forest.) 

 Rim shoe with heel calks 1 



(Little Bernice.) 

 Half rim shoe 1 



(Impetuous Palmer.) 



It will be noticed that the most popular front 

 shoe for trotters is a plain one. Next in popu- 

 larity comes the bar shoe with heel calks, and the 

 swedged shoe. The most popular pacing shoe is 

 the swedged. 



The most popular hind shoe for trotters is the 

 plain shoe with heel calks, followed by the 

 swedged shoe, then the plain shoe. 



In speaking of calks on a front shoe we mean 

 the long narrow calks welded on the shoe par- 

 allel to the direction of travel, sometimes called 

 jar calks. Heel calks on the hind shoe are those 

 formed from the body of the shoe itself. 



The classification above is not elastic enough 

 to accurately indicate the wide difference between 

 shoes of the same class. Take the plain front 

 shoes used by 1 1 trotters and i pacer. According, 

 to our classification all are alike, yet each one dif- 

 fers from the other in some particular, either as 



