PETA - Big Brown

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Danzig

doesn't rick dutrow usually keep his shoes off his front feet? i know i've seen horses reach up and pull their front shoes off...is this a similar occurrence, only instead of pulling off a shoe, he pulled off the patch?

A lot of times you can train a horse with feet like this barefoot to kind of let the horses feet toughen up and let them naturally shape themselves. It looks like he pulled the patch and some of the foot off with it.