Beckie Mabbutt

Here are my little nieces Phoebe (4) and Hetty (20 months) having their first riding experience. Hetty does not look too impressed!

These are narrow heels if ever there were any! This isn't a horse I've seen, but it is shod by a local farrier Grant Laing and I thought the photo was too good to not share. I'm sure you'll agree. I believe the gap between the heels was no wider than a 5 pence piece.

We had suspected this horse had negative sole planes, but these x-rays shocked us at just how bad. The pedal bone enclosed within the hoof capsule should not tilt back leaving the lower solar surface at a negative angle. In an ideal world we'd be hoping for about a 4-5 degree positive angle.

Well done to Rupert owned by Virginia Russell-Wood ridden by Clare. They did so well in one of their first ridden classes at Windsor. I've been tending to Ruperts feet since birth. Nice to see the horse he's grown in to.