ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: is this forging?

Re: is this forging?

Cheryl Newbanks (horsetrails@inficad.com)
Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:21:51 -0700 (MST)

>Teddy wrote:
> Forging if when the hind foot hits the shoe of the front foot..you can
>usually hear this "clicking" as the horse trots..this comes from bad shoing,
>fatigue, muscle soreness as well as in young horses who have just not yet
>learned how to get out of their own way.

Forging can also be a genetic thing. I've seen certain bloodlines on the
standardbred track that all seem to forge. No matter what was done to these
horses, change of blacksmith, equipment changes, conditioning changes,
etc.., they still forged. It can be attributed to a horses natural way of
going, also SOME arabs with a short back and very straight legs behind will
sometimes forge. So it is not ALWAYS a fixable thing, but more then likely
I'd look at the man made problems first, fitness second, then heridatory
third.

Cheryl Newbanks
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