. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. 1 as you could; but ity of burning tluit is er can do no liarni. vil) not bear as much ould be ap]>lied loss 3d, that you may be should " back-hole " t-8urt'ace for the nails o yon do not make vn the inner ed<re of Before you " file up " the shoe, hold it firmly in its place on the foot with both hands, and examine care- fully whether any light appeal's be- tween the foot and the shoe, and if you should per
. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. 1 as you could; but ity of burning tluit is er can do no liarni. vil) not bear as much ould be ap]>lied loss 3d, that you may be should " back-hole " t-8urt'ace for the nails o yon do not make vn the inner ed<re of Before you " file up " the shoe, hold it firmly in its place on the foot with both hands, and examine care- fully whether any light appeal's be- tween the foot and the shoe, and if you should per- ceive any, alter the shoe at once ; for the crust must bear upon the shoe all round before you can say that the shoe fits the foot as it ought to do. * tten wasted in pol- iled on.; but all that ibout the nail-holes, ound off the heels; t part of both heels it from the ground must not narrow the doing so. Tlxe ac- HLMNO DP TBK 8H0K. 400. companying c\its, figures 7 and 8, represent both surfaces of a near fori'-Hhde; Fig. 7 shows the Toot-surface, and Fig. 8 the ground-surface. • In Fig. 7, A is the clip at the toe, B 1 the outer quarter, B 2 the inner quur- ft'r, 0 1 the outer lu'cl, C 2 the inner heel, I) the seating, E the flat surface for the crust to boar upon, F the heels bevelled off away from the frog. In Fig. 8, A is the toe, turned up •out of the line of wear, B 1 the outer and B 2 the inner quarter, C 1 the outer and C 2 the inner heel, D the ground-surtace of the web, as wide at the heels as it is at the toe, E the fullering, carried all round the shoe. Nails.—I must say & few words about the nails before we come to nailing on the shoe; because the nails in common use are as badly formed as they well can be. Their short wedge- shaped heads, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with shanks springing suddenly from the head without any shoulder, and ending in a long, narrow point, are most unsafe to trust a shoe to. Tlie head of such a nail can never p
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