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AN ACCOUNT OF THE HORSE-SANDAL. 
the only shoe of the kind I ever saw or heard of that a horse 
could be ridden or driven in, for a distance, at a fast pace. 
In addition to serving* as a substitute for a lost shoe in the 
field, there is another purpose for which sandals appear to be 
well adapted; and that is, for race-horses during the time they 
are travelling from one race-course to another. In wearing san¬ 
dals, two great advantages would accrue to them: they would, „ 
every day, after having performed their journey, have their feet 
relieved from all shackle and confinement, and thus be enabled, 
with more ease, to take their rest, independently of the benefit 
which their feet would undergo; and, in addition to this, their 
feet would be ready, on their arrival at the race-course, to receive 
the plates, without being subject to such a repetition of nailing 
and unnailing, whereby their hoofs are often split or broken, and 
thus considerably injured. 
No one, who knows any thing about horses, need be told 
what alteration and improvement that horse’s foot undergoes 
(and in a very short time too) which is freed from the constraint 
of the shoe; emphatically styled, on this account, by Mr. Bracy 
Clark, the “iron prison.” During the time, therefore, that horses 
are standing without shoes, sandals are found very convenient to 
exercise them in 5 or, should the animal be lame, for the purpose 
of seeing him out in. 
From the facility with which they are put on and taken off, 
sandals may also be made very serviceable to veterinarians in 
cases of diseased feet; such as may demand daily dressing, and 
at the same time require exercise. 
The Sandals are sold by Mr. Tate, saddler, Park Street, 
Grosvenor Square; and Messrs. Parks and Son, saddlers, Cheap- 
side 5 where Models may be seen, and every required informa¬ 
tion obtained. It is not absolutely necessary for the horse to 
be brought to have a Sandal fitted : one of his old fore shoes, or 
the print of the foot upon paper, will enable the saddler to send 
the proper size. 
FORM FOR A REGIMENTAL RETURN OF SICK 
HORSES. 
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By Mr. J. C. Ralston, V. S. Madras Cavalry. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
On my arrival in this country, from India, it was w ith no 
common pleasure I procured and perused The Veterinarian, 
from its commencement to the present time. I had not seen it 
