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

["Bob Morris" <bobmorris@rmci.net>]

Club foot or not club foot there is one thing that is disturbing to me with
all of the talk about the bare foot trend. The adamant, strict conformation
to a hair line at an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal.

Now we all know that the horse is an individual and each one has it's own
idiosyncrasies, yet we are told every horse should have the HAIR LINE AT 30
DEGREED ON ALL FEET!

Lay it out for your self on paper heel measurement of 3cm. (1 3/16 inch),
sole horizontal, hair line at 20 degrees, toe angle of 45 degrees and toe
length is absolutely controlled by the foot size. But then we hear that the
toe should be a certain length so that is really controlling the foot size.

No I have to disagree with this premise of certain angles and lengths. the
horse is an individual and each foot is an individual with it's own
requirements.

So where do you disagree?

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Lif Strand [mailto:fasterhorses@gilanet.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 6:32 PM
To: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com; darolyn@swbell.net; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: 7/1 re: Butler on Barefoot/Strasser/fads...


At 11:30 AM 7/1/01, CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:

Darolyn:
>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.

Heidi:
>I have to agree wholeheartedly with this.

I have to disagree.  I've been watching one of our horses - now 5 years
old, barefoot all his life and never trimmed - whose club foot is getting
less and less clubby.  You'd have to look really closely to notice that
there are different angles at this point, whereas it was obvious when he
was 2.  That foot was never particularly contracted, however - maybe that
makes a difference?  Or maybe he's just the exception to the rule.  He has
a beautiful, even way of going and if you saw him at the extended trot
you'd think he was a dressage prospect - till you got up next to him and
realized he's only 14.1 hh!



Lif Strand
Quemado NM  USA
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