Show 29 ESSENTIAL FOR DRAFT HORSE important that animal should walk four miles mile an hour with load and without tiring A draft horse does doca most of 0 his bla hard work at the walking gait it Is therefore important that he should be able to walk fast without tiring ile he should be able to walk tour four miles an hour with a load it hla his feet are deformed in any way whether it bo be by disease or hereditary he be cannot do his best work the soles ot of tho the feet should turn up and show the shoes plainly as the horse moves away from the observer peet feet of draft borc homes no 1 hoof showing prominent frog frob bare bar trong strong walls and cupped sole aole no 2 distortion of hoof caused by lacuta founder the feet should be lifted quickly and evenly and be set down squarely and firmly the hoofs should bo be ample in size sound bound smooth ard and symmetrical in shape the hoof Is a continuation of the skin of the parts above the color of the skin decides the color ol of the hoof color counts for little however it if the hoofs are am of poor shape and texture the horn should be slightly cupped not flat or bulging the frog large elastic healthy and without a deep cleft the bars prominent poor fore feet are one of the commonest and most serious faults in draft horses |