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[RC] Farriers? Why not John Crandall - rides2farJohn Crandell is scheduled as part of the Ask The Expert panel on Saturday. Nice guy. Very personable. I heard him speak on the Expert panel last year. It was pretty general. He emphasized the need for a balanced hoof. Wasn't real big on exotic shoes. Said you could shoe one with a lid off a tin can if it was balanced right or something like that. When asked for specifics it was pretty non-commital..."Every horse is different". Steve Rojek's comment on shoeing was something like, "Don't jump around from one thing to another". That was pretty much what I got from the panel. I'm sure it was good advice but I wasn't able to do much with it. .I'd like to see slides and examples, discussion on how to see imbalance (don't just tell me to balance it). Slow motion film of hoof hitting ground? I know somewhere in KY they have a high speed treadmill that measures the force of the hooves hitting it & has slow motion photography or some such analysis technique. I'd love to see video of that, before & after shoeing changes, etc. etc. etc. I got far more from listening to Jeff Pauley's talk with slides at the APEX clinic and later watching him critique shoeing jobs of horses that were there. We watched them walk on a flat surface and I filmed and watched the footfalls in slow motion when I got home. Filmed my own horses in slow motion. Still had no idea whether he'd have approved or been horrified at my horse's shoe job. We all say how much we love our farriers...but I could deal with an ugly, late, unpersonable one if he kept my horse sound. Right now I have my favorite farrier back from Afghanistan finally, and I can only hope *he* can listen to some of these good speakers or talk with those who have shod HIGH MILEAGE horses and maybe he can make more sense out of it than I can. I darn near won the Lightweight division points race one year on an improperly shod horse, so I'm being specific that I want to hear from farriers who have kept several endurance horses going for years and years and miles and miles. Anybody want to submit some names? Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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