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Balancing and Shoeing Trotting and Pacing Horses

Chapter 54: IN CONCLUSION.
By William J. Moore
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About This Book

A practical, experience-based manual for balancing and shoeing light-harness horses that emphasizes foot preparation, trimming and shoe selection to correct or prevent faulty gaits. It offers routine care for foals and young stock, step-by-step guidance for preparing the sole and frog, and diagnostic approaches to common problems such as winging, paddling, interfering, forging, scalping, contracted heels, corns and hoof cracks. The author explains adjustments in trimming, the use of various shoe types and weights, frog pressure and bar shoes, and methods to reduce concussion and uneven wear, aiming to provide clear, actionable remedies to maintain sound, efficient action.

IN CONCLUSION.

If you have carefully read thus far you may feel conscious that I have repeated and reiterated again and again certain things in relation to “fixing feet”. If I have done this more than to you seems necessary, it is because of the importance of the things repeated, and because of my desire to impress my readers with their importance.

If you find herein anything that you are specially interested in, that to you may seem cloudy or involved, and not clear, I will be pleased to clarify and elucidate any point by correspondence.

My life study and work has been in connection with the thing about which I have herein written. I have been always, and am now, intensely and vitally interested in this subject, and my reason for putting my ideas into print is because of my extreme interest in the trotting and pacing race horse, and also because of a hope that by widening, and extending to others, the horizon of my experiences, by the means of a printed book, I may help many a sore horse, as well as many a discouraged trainer and driver and owner.

WILLIAM J. MOORE,
Pittsfield,
Berkshire County,
Massachusetts.
June, 1916.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.