7/1 re: Butler on Barefoot/Strasser/fads...

[Darolyn Butler-Dial <darolyn@swbell.net>]

According to Strasser dictates... going for the 30 degree hair line angle is
paramount to everything.  So far in my experience this has been so.  I've
had incredible results so far, albeit slow changes.... on changing the
high/low heel syndrome.  U must work on them more often than usual.... but
I'm bringing those club feet down to a more normal & matching angle with the
low (& actually the good) heel.  I've solved at least two cases of chronic
lameness by getting that club down.  Not to bash farriers, & certainly not
all of them... but they have a habit of just continuing to shoe a club foot
allowing it to get more & more contracted.  A horse that's a little clubby
at 3-4 years old that is constantly kept in shoes & not therapeutically
trimmed to lower those high club heels is just going to continue to get more
& more clubby &  contracted as he ages.  Eventually, this has to effect his
way of going.

I'll never forget the heartache of Darla Westlake at the ROC on the Big Horn
course where she was passed all day with thumbs up on her horse's somewhat
weird gait (due to a club foot), then pulled at the finish.  We were video
taping that day for a video coverage & have lots of footage.  He even had a
weird walk.... most vets accepted this, but somehow at the finish they
didn't.  However, knowing what I know now, if this horse had been corrected
early on, he might have  become more even & his uneven gait would not of
detracted from what was one of the most outstanding 10,000 mile (I  believe)
horses in AERC history.
djbd


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-----Original Message-----
From: Lif Strand [mailto:fasterhorses@gilanet.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 11:10 AM
To: ride camp
Subject: RC: RE: Re: Butler on Barefoot/Strasser/fads...


At 01:13 AM 6/30/01, Darolyn Butler-Dial wrote:
>  I've kept my toes shorter than
>most from the very beginning.  However, it might be that the whole foot is
>pretty short & the toe appears so too.  I felt from the get go that a long
>toe might be detrimental to a distance horse & tried to never leave them
too
>long.

So is the old rule of matching the line of the hoof to the line of the
pastern no longer any good?  I thought "arbitrarily" changing the angle was
to invite problems.  Is is really OK to talk about and/or trim long or
short toes w/o considering the structures above the hoof?  Or am I missing
something?

Lif Strand
Quemado NM  USA
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