08/08/2025
What?!!! A radical veterinarian in the 1800s said all horses need to be kept and ridden barefoot?!!! Yes, that's true!! Bracy Clark "was a veterinarian working at the Royal Veterinary College in London, a scientist and member of several international scientific organizations. He discovered, researched, and, beginning in 1809, published a number of scientific papers about the ill effects of the horseshoe, the anatomy and physiology of the hoof (already chronicling the circulation in the hoof, and how a metal shoe compromised it), and among other things, discovered and named the periople."
Read the full article here:
Barefoot Hoof Care Beginnings: Bracy Clark
https://www.thehorseshoof.com/barefoot-hoof-care-beginnings-bracy-clark/