Beckie Mabbutt

This week I got to do a couple of new horses for Julie Taylor. I wanted to share with you what difference can be made with trimming. These pictures below are of one of Blue's front feet. You can see on the first picture the heels are very high and curl in quite tightly. Using the line showing the widest part of the foot (in the centre) there is only about an inch behind that line of weight bearing surface to the heels. There is no strength in heels that are curling over, this can often cause quite a lot of pain in the back of the foot. It's like having a bent bit of metal and  then loading it, it is not as strong as a straight bit of metal. Another thing to note was with the heels this high the frog had lost all contact with the ground and therefore wasn't functioning as it should. So looking at the post-trim picture you can see the ratios of the foot have changed completely. The heels are now straight and ready to be loaded. The distance behind the widest point of the foot has doubled, it's amazing what changes can be made with just one trim.