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The Horse's Foot, and How to Keep It Sound. [With] an Appendix

The Horse's Foot, and How to Keep It Sound. [With] an Appendix

Miles, William

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ISBN10: 1151465380
ISBN13: 9781151465382
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...sometimes practised, but oftener, I believe, unjustly suspected. The dread of casting a plate is so great, that it is no uncommon thing to see it secured by eight or nine nails, extending from heel to heel. Now it is impossible, that a hoof, so fettered, can yield or expand to any force, applied to it through the medium of the weight and power of the horse; and it is also certain, that, if the hoof do not expand, the violence, with which a race horse lashes the ground at every stride, must needs squeeze the sensitive parts very uncomfortably between the bones of the foot and this unyielding hoof, and deter him in a great degree from throwing his whole weight with all his heart into his feet, as he does, when he has no apprehension of producing pain thereby. Now let us see, what the effect of stepping short, say only one inch upon each stride, would be in running over the Derby course, (a mile and a half.) The estimated stride of a race horse averages twenty four feet; it would therefore require three hundred and thirty such strides, to accomplish the proposed distance; and the loss of one inch only upon each stride would give a total loss upon the whole distance of three hundred and thirty inches, or nine yards and six inches; equal to rather more, than three lengths of a horse sixteen hands high; but suppose the loss of distance to be four inches upon each stride, which it is much more likely to be, then the loss would be thirty six yards and two feet, or thirteen lengths; fully enough to raise a cry of foul play, the horse is amiss, &c. Now no jockey in the world, however frequently he may have ridden a horse, could so exactly measure his stride, as to be enabled to detect a deficiency of one seventy second part of it, which fo...

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