01/04/2025
Super interesting post and a very obvious demonstration of how wrong it could go if you don’t know what you’re looking at!
Thanks to Alicia Harlov for allowing me permission to use her photographs. Also for the information I gained from Pete Ramey recently in a PHCP 2022 seminar.
Here is a very tall looking foot which looks like it needs quite a bit taken off the bottom on first glance. However, look at the radiograph. It’s pretty amazing!
The bones look like they are a “sinker”. Pete says that the bones are where they need to be but the coronet has moved up.
Gosh that’s a mind changing statement for me and I am struggling with it.
Note the super thin sole.
If anything was removed from the bottom of this foot then the horse would certainly be in trouble.
Pete Ramey said the heels are not that high in the radiograph but he would take them down a little. Plus improve breakover.
He also keeps every shred of sole, and retains any exfoliating sole. He does not agree with removing that at all. In this case I can see why the horse needed all its sole protection.
One of the oh my gosh moments for me is that the middle pastern bone is deep in the capsule. So any movement of that joint would surely press against the inner hoof capsule?
As I dive deeper into this I’ll share more highlights with you.
Hopefully Harlov will chip in to help us understand this foot better and what was done to help it.
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