Beckie Mabbutt

Below is a mare I trimmed for the first time this week. She had very long feet and I predict hadn't been trimmed for about 6 months. She had excellent quality feet they were just very long and flared. I have added some red lines to the drawings to help show the angle changes that can be achieved with just one trim. Also please notice in the Pre-Trim picture the heels look low and week and are run forward. The way I have achieved the good strong upright heel in the picture at the bottom is by actually trimming all the folded heel off. This is often hard for people to get their heads round as people regularly tell me their horse has no heels and what do I go and do, trim it away! And straight away the owner comments that their heels look much stronger as a result but they can't quite get their heads around how that can be. There is no strength in something that is bend and folded over, so the distortions need to be removed first to get a good solid foundation.