Ridecamp: Re: [RC] interference

>From one who has gone through a lot of shoeing issues over the past 10 years
with my two horses I've competed, I'd suggest if you have a good farrier
that can correctly trim, balance a hoof and correctly put on a shoe that
stays on, shows up on time and will listen to you - keep him. There are a
lot of issues with a particular horse which an given farrier may not have
the answers. I have found what works best is for me to do my homework and
 the farrier to work with me to solve the problem. 

My mare would click - big overstride - and ever once in a while pull a shoe.
My farrier tried all the tricks. What finally solved it was me doing my homework.
I rode her, he didn't. I knew when she did this and when she didn't on the
trail and I talked to every farrier and vet I could at rides. Every time
he was out we talked about what I had found out. We (as a team ) solved the
problem by working on the front not the back. What we ended up with was a
shoe in the front that is almost the shape of the NBS shoe and she never
pulled another shoe. 

I worked with my current farrier (  moved three years ago ) to deal with
the issues with the current horse I am riding - underslung heels. Again we
both did our homework work as a team. This is what I look far in a farrier.
I don't think any of them have all the answers and they only see your horse
for an hour every 5 to 6 weeks whereas you see him every day.

Good luck with you shoeing issues
Truman

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The rolled toe/squared heel was a suggestion someone made (can't remember who, trainer, dad, ridecamp) because I could hear her clipping her front shoes with her back shoes sometimes at the end of a ride when she was tired. It hasn't helped that very much. She didn't overreach up over the hoof and nick her canon bone like my old guy used to (he used to have the rolled toes/squared heels too years ago when he was competing) but just wasn't picking up her front feet quite as fast when she was tired, and hitting the back of her front shoe with her rear. Not being up on my "lingo" I'm not sure if that's called forging or not.

 

Needless to say, I'll be trying to find a new farrier in the Lodi/Stockton, California area who can handle this kind of stuff. Mine seems to be a basic shoe guy. I love him as a person but I think I'm gonna have to give him up. I just discovered there is a retired couple living a few miles away from named Kirkpatrick and the wife just completed the Tevis with a two-month-old cracked rib from a nasty fall. My hat's off to her. I think I'll see if I can find her phone number and see who she uses.