J Holder-Spriggs Services

14/06/2025

Huge congratulations to David Nicholls. Dave is a founder member of the The Farriery Practice and a great mentor and true friend.

A Worthing man who fits shoes for horses has been included in the King’s Birthday Honours list.

14/06/2025

Fitted a pair of squish pads for the hinds feet’s on an older horse with an acute case of laminitis.

Acrylic glue is used down the side tabs to hold in place whilst the foot surface has Total Foot Protection Ltd new super soft impression material under the frog and rear portion of the foot.

I further hollowed out the area under the tip of P3 and filled with just magic cushion. These will hopefully stay on until the acute stage is over.

20/07/2023

Todays funky shoe is a aluminium banana shoe.

Explanation later today 😁🍌

23/03/2023

New shoes and pads for this little lamintic pony.

The hard plastic pad combined with a heavily ground shoe mimic a clog with the benefit of allowing the horse to carry on its low level ridden work

The foot surface of the pad was ground out to remove any potential of sole pressure over the top of P3

Hoof packing used was magic cushion extreme

Total Foot Protection Ltd
The Farriery Practice

17/09/2022

Just booked my place, can’t wait. I met Dr Hans Castelijns years ago when I was an apprentice and was blown away by his ideas and solutions. Really looking forward to seeing how much further his theories have come

06/09/2022

A great X-ray demonstration of what a positive, flat and negative angle look like.

06/06/2022

Huge congratulations to team McLean Reitsport GmbH.

Warwick smashed it and I could be prouder to be part of the team behind them. Wishing you the best of luck this summer competition season abd looking forward to my next trip over.

20/05/2022

An older horse with hock arthritis.

Arthritic changes in the hock joint tend to start to the medial aspect of the joint.

On leverage testing the equine will show a preference to the medial heel being raised and a strong dislike to the lateral toe being raised. When the medial heel is raised it opens the medial aspect of the hock joint up and reduced pressure on the arthritic changes.

A avanti was converted to a hind shoe with spiral wear pattern. The medial heel is higher and tapers down to the lateral heel.

The horse showed a preference strait away to load onto the new shoe and visible relaxed.

17/05/2022

Never going to tire of this technique. Acrylic glue with a rubber chop to fill in and build up missing sections of the foot then cast and glued to increased wall thickness on a thin walled foot. Added bonus is it helps reduce shoe loss risk when shoe fitted with length and support in regards to the original hoof.

06/02/2022

A time lapse of trimming a extreme level of foot growth in a rescue case