. Training the trotting horse : a natural and improved method of educating trotting colts and horses based on twenty years experience . balance. We trim our colts feet and shoe our horses everythree weeks, which will be found as long a periodas the feet can be allowed to go unattended to withimpunity. In all my studies and methods in training I neverforget to keep in sight a due regard for what is natu-ral. Shoeing is unnecessary to the horse in his wild,natural state; it is artificial and unnatural, becausethe domesticated horse is kept in an artificial andunnatural state. It must, therefore,
. Training the trotting horse : a natural and improved method of educating trotting colts and horses based on twenty years experience . balance. We trim our colts feet and shoe our horses everythree weeks, which will be found as long a periodas the feet can be allowed to go unattended to withimpunity. In all my studies and methods in training I neverforget to keep in sight a due regard for what is natu-ral. Shoeing is unnecessary to the horse in his wild,natural state; it is artificial and unnatural, becausethe domesticated horse is kept in an artificial andunnatural state. It must, therefore, be regarded as anecessary evil. But the foot of the horse, unprotected,will not stand the battering of turf-training; there-fore, the prime and sole object of shoeing is to affordthe wall of the foot protection against the terrificconcussion of fast trotting on more or less hardtracks. The next consideration is to make that protectionas light and uncumbersome as consistent with , at Palo Alto, we shoe our horses all pretty muchalike, with a plain, light, simple shoe, such as is shown 276 TRAINING THE TROTTING in the cuts, ranging in weiglit from say, eight to four-teen ounces. I like very well what is called a half-concave and half-convexshoe. The toe concavedon the ground surfacewill not throw dirtagainst the horses belly,which is sufficient tomake some unsteadv,while the concavity onthe upper surface j^re-vents it from bearing onthe sole. We generallyhave the shoe drop off Typical Palo Alto Shoe. at the heel ; i. €., WC begin about an inch from the heel to champer it off toa tapering end. My explanation hasbeen mainly directedtoward making clear thereasons for preservingthe natural level andbearing, and the neces-sit}^ of non-interferencewith the expansion andcontraction of the hooffrom the quarter to theheel, according as the foot bears weight or is inside of shoe. relieved of it. The levelling I have already spokenof; in the manner of nailing the sho
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