Beckie Mabbutt

Just took these shocking pictures of a 2 yr old Filly that's just come back from training. I have trimmed her feet every 4 weeks since the day she was born and would consider her to have small but good feet. She's just been away for breaking and training and returned back to me after 9 months with these long feet. I find it very disappointing that so much money is put into getting these race horses to perform well but yet something so simple as the balance of the feet is forgotten. This is pretty common on race horses and it just makes me think how much faster could they go if their toes were shortened and the shoe was placed centrally underneath their coffin joint. Also it is no surprise with feet being left like this that they break down so young, and suffer from tendon issues.

Here are some pictures from today all of the same foot. I think they're quite self explanatory...