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Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay
Thunderello is definitely club footed on the near side. His angulation is not correct. You know it's funny. In my experience with working with horses, almost every time a darker colored horse has a light colored hoof, that hoof has problems...whether it be fungal problems, a dished hoof, a brittle hoof, a smaller hoof than the other darker colored hooves, contracted heels, or club hooves. It almost never fails.
I honestly didn't ever recognize that until I was about sixteen when I watched a video and Rodney Jenkins pointed it out.
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that's odd...i was always under the impression that lighter colored hooves were weaker, but then i read (in bloodhorse maybe) that it really isn't the case--according to that author.