Air-cushion pad, seen from ground
surface and in profile. Suitable for
light harness horses.
Fig. 147.
A heavy bar-pad suitable for heavy
harness and draft-horses on pavement.
The short shoe may carry a toe-calk
of medium height.
3. They give frog pressure, develop the frog and tend to prevent contraction of the quarters and those lesions which may follow contraction, as corns, cracks of bars and quarters, laminitis of the quarters and thrush.
A rubber pad should not be used:
1. In contraction of one or both quarters, when the frog is too much shrunken to bear upon the pad.
2. In lameness from well developed side-bones.
3. In navicular bursitis (“navicular disease”).
4. In thrush, or canker of frog or sole.