ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: Gene Ovnicek Shoeing

Re: Gene Ovnicek Shoeing

Kimberly Henneman (vuduvet@utah-inter.net)
Wed, 4 Jun 1997 23:28:12 +0100

TRacy: I got an email from Ed Kinney of Thorobred Shoe company that makes a
shoe of Gene's design (the World Race Plate). He emailed me to tell me that
Bernie Chapman (famous farrier) put them on a horse that almost didn't pass
his vet check for the Qatar 100 and he won...even Bernie was impressed.
The problem is that they are aluminum so you just use them as a model for
steel shoes. Have your farrier use the Eventer by St.Croix because they
already have a bevel to them.

I have done a little endurance as time allows (usually I am the one with
the stethoscope waiting for you though) and my horses have done great. It
made all the difference in the world with my guy who broke his neck as a
jousting horse. I thought his stumbling was his neck and it turns out it
was his feet (he has tiny coffin bones on xray). Once we put his breakover
back for him....the stumbling stopped and his stride lenghthened a great
deal.

Sounds like you have a great farrier...don't let him go. Check out the
farriers website at www.horseshoes.com. Trail Blazer has been running a
bunch of articles by Nancy Loving and one by me on the use of balanced
trimming in the endurance horse. You might want to check those out
too...my article on Gene's stuff was in last July's.
Kim Henneman, DVM

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