_The shoes for hunters_ do not differ materially from those suitable for Park Hacks. The hunter’s shoes are somewhat lighter, and to guard against injury to the feet by over-reaching and interfering, and against the shoes being pulled by stiff mire and by treading, the shoes must represent merely a prolongation of the hoofs, _i.e._, must be no longer and no wider than the hoofs themselves. =The front shoe= of narrow, convex iron is rolled at the toe and has a central toe-clip. Forging heel-calks are advisable. =The hind shoe= is set back at the toe, carries inner and outer toe clips, an outer heel-calk and an inner interfering branch. Seven nails. Shoeing Runners. Racing plates are intended solely to prevent excessive wear and breaking away of the wall, and to insure a secure foothold upon the ground. The shoes are made as light as possible, but they must not be so narrow and thin that they will bend or break. They are therefore made of steel, wide enough to cover the bearing-surface of the wall, white line, and an eighth of an inch of the sole. The ground-surface is divided into two sharp edge’s by a deep, clean, fullering continued entirely around the shoe. heel-calks are of no advantage. Front and hind shoes carry six nails. The last nails are well back in the quarters to prevent the spreading or bending of the light shoe. Front shoes are provided with central toe-clips; hind shoes carry inner and outer toe-clips and are set slightly under at the toe (see Figs. 125, 126, 127, 128). An _average weight_ running plate for a medium-sized hoof is _three to four ounces_. [Illustration: FIG. 125. A fore running plate, hoof-surface.] [Illustration: FIG. 126. A fore running plate, ground-surface.] [Illustration: FIG. 127. A hind running plate, hoof-surface.] [Illustration: FIG. 128. A hind running plate, ground-surface.] Shoeing Trotters and Pacers. The shoes worn while the trotter or pacer is in training are somewhat heavier than those worn while racing. Training shoes will average 40 ounces to the set, while trotting and pacing plates weigh from 16 to 28 ounces to the set. Of the six fastest trotters during the last year (1912) the average weight of the front shoes was 6⅚ ounces, of the hind shoes 4 ounces. Of the seven swiftest pacers of the same year the front shoes averaged 5½ ounces, and the hind shoes 3⅝ ounces. In short, _extreme speed at running, pacing or trotting demands as light a shoe as can be made, which will at the same time furnish a bearing for wall, white line and a narrow rim of the sole_.