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Title: Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904
Subjects: Horses Horses -- Diseases Horses -- Diseases
Publisher: London, England : Hurst and Blackett, Ltd.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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more or less of the weight on his forehand will be transferredto his hind quarters; in other words, to lighten his forehand,so as to make him readily lift his fore legs out of the way of thehind ones. The methods to attain this end are described in Illus-trated Horsebreaking, and consist in making the animal rein-back, circle, change his leg, and perform other school movements OYER-EEACHES. 83 in a collected manner, both with the long reins and whenmounted. We should carry out the same principle when riding ordriving the animal. In this endeavour, we should stimulate him togo on, and at the same time hold him in, so that the movements ofhis fore legs being checked in a forward direction, will be increasedin an upward one. As jjrecautio-ns in shoeing, we may get the inner edges of the hindshoes, at the toes on the ground surface, bevelled off; and the hindtoes made square by putting square-toed shoes, with side clips,on the hind lioofs, the toes of which are then rasped flush with the
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Pig. 34.—Over-reaching boots on horse. toes of the shoes. Many American authorities recommend fortrotters that over-reach, the use of heavier shoes in front thanbehind, say, ones of 14 oz. and 6 oz. respectively. Their employ-ment often improves the action so much, that ordinar)^ shoes canbe resumed later on. Blackwells india-rubber guards (Fig. 33),which are made to encircle the pastern and hang down over thepart liable to injury, are very useful for preventing over-reachingon the heels. The emplo)mient of bandages or boots is self-suggestive to every careful horseman, when practising a horseat jumping water, especially if the ground on the landing sideis soft. For this purpose a good pattern of strong leather boot,which should be lined with cloth, is shown in Figs. 34 and 35. 84 WOUNDS AND BRUISES. TREATMENT.—If the wound be just above the heels,, our chiefobject will be to prevent moisture getting on the part, which is soakin to horn that the action of water on it would tend to

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