Petra Keese Healing

Petra Keese Healing Helping horses and people to heal, connect and be happy is my life purpose Empowering and supporting you step by step to become healthy, happy and mobile again.

Joy of Life is about looking at the whole picture of dis-ease, I am working with humans and animals, specially with horses . It is about finding the source of the problem and then finding a solution and not just covering up symptoms.

05/12/2025

The Hard Sole Plane: Nature’s Blueprint - Hoof Care is Not a Guessing Game

Trimming to the Hard Sole Plane (HSP) is not a vague, subjective idea.

It’s not something that we just made up.

It is Mother Nature’s non-negotiable blueprint for balance - a constant within the hoof that remains true across all breeds, disciplines, and terrains.

Yet, it is one of the most frequently - and deliberately - misunderstood concepts in hoof care.

What the HSP Is Not:

• It is not trimming to any “hard bit” of sole you stumble upon.
• It is not arbitrarily flattening a foot.
• It is not about aggressively lowering both toe and heel just to say you’ve “hit the hard sole.”
• It is not trimming to the widest part of the frog.

Doing these things is not trimming to the HSP - it’s distortion masquerading as balance.

What the HSP Is…

The Hard Sole Plane is the internal, anatomical reference that nature provides to align the hoof with its intended function.

Without it you cannot ever accurately assess balance.

It represents:

• The base of true balance.
• The integration point between internal structure and external form.
• A natural indicator of when enough is enough.

This cadaver foot was trimmed and balanced strictly to the HSP. No guesswork. No forceful shortening. Just a careful removal of excess hoof.

The result? Balance. Structure. Integrity.
Nothing was forced. Nothing was compromised.

No excess hoof walls or heels. No over-shortening of the toe. Bars down to the level of the HSP.

The hoof told us exactly what it needed - and we listened.

This is the power of the HSP when properly understood.

Most hoof care professionals (HCPs) were never trained to accurately read the HSP.

So they mock it.
They blame it.

They say it feels “too low” or declare it a “welfare concern.” But what they’re really saying is:

“I don’t understand it, so it must be wrong.”

Worse, some exploit the term to justify their own trimming practices.

They’ll shorten a foot from both ends, flatten the sole, and declare:

“Trimmed to the HSP!”

But they didn’t. They removed structure. They distorted architecture.

We don’t shorten hooves arbitrarily.

We don’t chop heels in pursuit of symmetry.

We return the heels to their anatomically correct position.

Because we respect:

• The natural growth cycle.
• The full sole depth.
• The internal harmony of the hoof capsule.

When you truly trim to the HSP, horses recover.

When you fake it, they fail.

But in order to trim successfully to the HSP you must understand balance.

If you go further than the HSP or you don’t go far enough through compaction, you will imbalance the hoof.

So those that mock us and the HSP, are just making it up. They are the masters of winging it - we have a name for that 👉Personal Preference Trimming (PPT).



HM.

Please join our free rehab group The Phoenix Way: Path 2 Hoof Health and learn about Mother Nature’s constants and the HSP.

05/12/2025

LOOK AT THEM.

I’ve made a collage. Just a few of the cases we’ve seen this week.

Not all. Just some. Just a small few. I haven’t got a collage big enough to show you all of them.

Horses let down - again and again - by incorrect hoof care. Still trapped in it. Still suffering.

If you think this is the job you want, because you think I should shut up and you can do better, then go ahead.

You take the mantle.
You face the daily s**t show.
You build the global army to stop it.

You absorb the broken-hearted messages, the stories that gut you, the irreversible harm.

Or maybe you’ll just sit back in your circle of “Oh dear… poor horse… nothing we could do.”

Because that’s easier, isn’t it?

Really look at them. For god’s sake LOOK AT THEM!

Do you think this is funny?
Do you think this deserves to be mocked?
What is wrong with you?

For every person who’s sneered, laughed, cursed, and tried to tear us down…
We see you.
You are part of this.
You fed the silence that let this happen.
You mocked us because we’re trying to stop it.

Well here’s what I will say - and I say it and will keep saying it with every bone and fibre in my body - I will die on this hill:

• P3 is not suspended in the hoof capsule.
• The DDFT is not pulling it away from the laminae.
• Diet doesn’t tear laminae.
• P3 doesn’t “sink”, it stays exactly where it was put - screwed up in its coffin where you put it.
• The coronary band distorts, painfully, tragically, creating the illusion of a bone sinking down.
• And when you rebalance the hoof capsule, P3 rebalances with it EVERY SINGLE TIME.

You think it was laminitis?
You think it was some mysterious metabolic collapse?

No. It was the free fall of hideous equine hoof care - guided by opinion, masked as professionalism, and executed in ignorance.

You think I should shut up?

LOOK AT THE X-RAYS. LOOK AT THE PHOTOS. DRINK IT IN. DRINK - THEM - IN!

This is the most distressing and hateful job I have ever experienced in my life - my girls call it “the angry job”.

I didn’t choose this fight. It chose me.

Because this is what you want me to stop talking about.

You go talk to owners like I do - every single day.

You listen to the grief.
You explain the impossible damage.
You try to pick up the pieces after the trim that destroyed the foot.

But most of you?

You don’t talk. You scoff. You ridicule. You whisper in your little groups.
Is it jealousy?
Is it guilt?
Is it because you do this too and can’t face it?

You want to believe it was the diet.
You want to believe P3 was a “sinker.”
You want to believe the toe chopped itself off.

No. You did this.

Every single one of you who hates us for showing this mess - you contributed to it.

You want to shut me up?

Too bad.

Because I won’t.

And to those calling us a cult?
Idiots?
Morons?

Let me tell you something:

If listening to the horse instead of outdated science makes us a cult -
then we’re a cult of truth.

You’re all in a cult too you know! A mocking cult.

If caring more about outcomes than egos makes us idiots - then we’re idiots with sound rehabbing horses with photographic, X-ray and video proof.

Where’s yours eh?

If standing up for the voiceless makes us morons - then we’re the most dangerous kind.

Because we’re not here to win your approval.

We’re here to end the suffering you’ve normalized.

So label us however you like.

Just remember:

While you’re defending a broken system, we’re rebuilding a future.

One hoof, one truth, one fearless voice at a time.

So suck it up, buttercups.
We’re building an army.
And justice will come for these horses, and their owners, and every broken life left in the wake of the so-called “experts.”

You don’t make us weaker.
You make us unstoppable.

Because we carry the weight of these horses.

We carry the truth you couldn’t bear to face.

And we will not stop - I will not stop - not until the laughing ends, and the healing begins.

You think I’m too shouty, too aggressive… I want to scream about this but it feels like I’m in a vacuum.

So you shut up or stand up. That’s your only choice now. This s**t show is on your hands until you see the truth.

LOOK - AT - THESE - JUST - THIS - WEEK

I’m not stupid, moronic, an evil bitch, a man-hater, or a wannabe social media star.

I am broken to the core with this vile world. And you mock me, I bloody see you.

You stand up and fight with me. Or get out of the way and let us finish this.

Because we will. With you or without you.

I promise you. For every horse on this planet. I will finish what I started.

Lindsay Setchell
HM

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