"Horses and roads" - 1880 book rediscovered

A quick weekend post just to add a couple of links to an old book redistributed for the electronic age!

One of the UKNHCP forum members brought this to our attention early this week and there are many pearls of wisdom in it - and in fact reading it you realise yet again that there is nothing new under the sun - the shoeing/barefoot debate has been around a LONG time and certainly predates Tinternet ;-)

The UKNHCP forum discussion is here: http://uknhcp.myfastforum.org/about2142.html

and the book itself is here: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Horses_and_roads.djvu