Beckie Mabbutt

These pictures below are of an old event horse that is retired. She has been bare foot, but when she came to me she had bad seedy toe in one front, the other three feet were in perfect condition.

I managed to stabilise that foot, but never fully got rid of the seedy toe.

Then at a later date due to a severe knee injury on the other leg, she developed laminitis on this one foot due to an excessive weight load.

As all the other feet were great I've just been shoeing this one foot, with pads etc.

I want you to see the transformation in the wall angle and how over time this foot is becoming a lot stronger despite all the laminar tearing.

I hope in time I'll be able to share with you a picture of this foot with no damage at the toe.

I got an email out of the blue last week from a French Farrier Grégoire Fauquembergue that I visited and worked with for a day in France about 6 years ago. Grégoire and his previous apprentice Sam were coming over to England on Business and wondered if they could come out shoeing with me for the day.

We had a really good day assesing the horses and bouncing ideas off one another as to how things could be done differently.

I also got the opportunity to video a few of the horses with his high speed camera, so we could watch them move in really slow motion.

It was a great day and may lead to me visiting them again in France in the not to distant future.