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Old 10-09-2006, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by paisjpq
I have no idea ...I don't talk to trainers...at least not like some others around here....but I guess nothing would surprise me, if the horse were going to be running over it all the time. It wouldn't make sense to experiment with hoof angles for one run...and I too have seen some messy outcomes when farriers try to play god and change a horse's natural angle...my own horse was a complete disaster when i bought him, it took 8 months to get his feet right.
Mine too, as well as my sister's t-bred. When they raced him, they kept his toes a lot longer than they should have and he already had a natural tendency to walk on his heels... it made it that much worse when they tried to "fix" that problem.
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