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Sounds like you are talking about "natural balance" shoeing.  My vet 
suggested I try it, as he had been studying it and my gaited horses 
might move better with a more straight up trimming and shorter toe.  He 
did warn us that it is a difficult technique.  A  farrier not well 
trained or well-skilled could lame the horse.

I now only use a natural balance shoer, but I went through three 
farriers before I found a reliably good one.

-Paul L.
On Saturday, September 18, 2004, at 04:40 PM, Alice Yovich wrote:

> I'm wondering how you guys who do long rides prefer to do your horses' 
> feet. This is not a barefoot/shoe question, but a philosophical 
> question. is there a prevailing type of shoeing people like.  For 
> example, my favorite shoeing job that my horse ever had was done by a 
> farrier in East Texas who follows the Lyle "Bergy" Bergeleen method. 
> She moved great. I brought her home and have tried for a year to get 
> my farrier to trim my mare shorter or shoe her shorter, and he has 
> flat refused saying that the way she was done was just plain "wrong"  
> After an unfortunate stumbling incident last night (only five weeks 
> since was trimmed and she's been stumbling for 2 weeks already) I've 
> decided to look for another farrier, and I'm looking for one trained 
> in this method. I think i've found one and I'm in the process of 
> getting an appointment.
>
> What I wonder is: do "dressage people" and "endurance people" do their 
> horses' feet differently? Am I experiencing a fundamental difference 
> in expectation and philosophy with my current farrier?  The other 
> women at our barn, who all do just dressage, as opposed to a 
> combination of both, as I do, think he's just the cat's meow and it 
> seems to me that I've been struggling for 2 years to get her feet done 
> properly and the toe just gets longer and longer. Two years ago, I 
> rarely even considered shoeing, but now he take off so little and she 
> grows so much that she's falling all over herself. The farrier says he 
> can't trim her shorter unless he shoes her, which is not necessarily 
> true.
>
> anyway, i'm not interested in a shoes/no shoes thread. I am curious 
> about how your keep your horses' feet though, short, long, 
> indifferent, etc.
>
>
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