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Fall resets.
09/27/2025

Fall resets.

Lefts and rights. Once you see it, you can't un-see it.
08/24/2025

Lefts and rights. Once you see it, you can't un-see it.

Hot, dry, and crunchy.
08/21/2025

Hot, dry, and crunchy.

Just a little inside out
08/09/2025

Just a little inside out

08/03/2025

Foot mapping to the golden means.

07/31/2025

We toe clipped these feet, and they grew more upright!?
Sometimes all it takes is being nice to feet, and fitting the bone inside.
The inherent problem with setting back a round front pattern keg behind the dorsal wall on a horse that is NPA, is the overloading of quarters and heels, which actually makes the problem worse.
When that doesn't work, a lot of times folks will migrate to wedges, which further overloads the back half.
I think instead of continuing to try and wedge a capsule up as it continues to sink, we need to be giving our horses some rest and going back to building healthy capsules. That six months to a year of capsule rehab can translate to many extra years of sound work and performance.

Building feet instead of buying them seems to be losing favor as fast as forges are disappearing from trucks. Anatomy forged in to shoe shapes is what helps build capsules. Removing material from feet or leaving distortion to fit an "ideal" shaped shoe out of the box will never make a capsule stronger.


Doing things “Just fine” hides a world of “not quite right.”The sooner we raise the bar for ourselves, the sooner we rai...
07/30/2025

Doing things “Just fine” hides a world of “not quite right.”
The sooner we raise the bar for ourselves, the sooner we raise the bar for our horses and clients.

Frindy feet. I even remembered to put E-heads in this time 😂
06/27/2025

Frindy feet. I even remembered to put E-heads in this time 😂

What's more important-er, medial toes or breakover? Or are they related? 🤔Once you see it, you can't unsee it. In almost...
06/20/2025

What's more important-er, medial toes or breakover? Or are they related? 🤔

Once you see it, you can't unsee it. In almost every foot.

On most properly trimmed feet, there is only approximately an inch of "free growing" hoof wall that is not attached to the coffin bone by lamina. Why would the foot shape change from anatomically correct/the shape of that individual coffin bone, to something else in that one inch between the laminar attachment and the ground?

If this is your first time reading about anatomically correct toes, message me and I can introduce you to our Lord and Savior, the medial toe 😂

Tight, anatomically correct toes do more for "breakover" and the health of a capsule, than a square toe or set back shoe...
06/05/2025

Tight, anatomically correct toes do more for "breakover" and the health of a capsule, than a square toe or set back shoe. Change my mind.

06/05/2025

This case study presents base information to assist farriers working with long toe, low or underrun heel (LTLH), low palmar angle (PA) and broken-back hoof pastern axis (HPA), resulting in clinical presentation described as caudal heel pain and navicular syndrome.

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