Here’s an extreme deviation and a trim to sole plane with added lateral support. Three year old QH. I didn’t see this horse until a week ago. The owner’s been bugging me since shortly after I broke my collarbone (Sept 1) and I’ve been trying to tell him a) I’m really not interested in new customers and b) I’m broke down and can’t shoe one for a while anyway. He’s a persistent cuss, wouldn’t take no for an answer and I finally agreed to come out with a friend and former apprentice and see what we could do with Alan handling the actual work. Hopefully the orthopod will give me an OK to do my own work next week. A week ago we went to trim his three with it being left to us if this one needed shoes. We said lateral support was necessary, but we’d like radiographs. Owner still wondered if the horse could be straightened although the vet had told him that he should have brought the horse in at two months rather than three years. I agreed and suggested the X-rays so he could really see the problem.

Alan trimmed to sole plane before the x-rays. Last picture is the A-P view showing the problem at the distal end of the third metacarpal. Distal surface of P-3 is pretty level, collateral grooves are close to the same depth. Sorry for the quality, weren’t great films anyhow and we could only hold them toward the light and snap a picture.

Second pic is a shot down the cannon as we normally sight to show how far the T-square method would miss. Next is a solar shot of the shoe, the extra fullering on the lateral heel is just to spread it and get more support. That was my first hot work since the injury and it felt mighty good.

The last pic is the finished foot. It’s deceptive and doesn’t look like there’s as much lateral support as there really is. Should have taken it from the rear. At any rate he walked off better than he walked up. He’s no longer twisting at the fetlock on the sand surface where he lives. I’ll report more after he gets ridden some. Seems like I'm doing a bunch of QH and Paints lately with bad legs.

And David, I rarely build up the hoof wall even on medial support unless there’s an interference problem or a show horse where cosmetics are important.

David,
I think you're being ignored.

Mr. Evers,

Just wanted to say it's getting to be about time to reset the horse you posted pictures of in this thread so please don't forget the new photos. I'm looking forward to seeing them.

Thanks
David

Kim,

I know you were off the forum for a while but you seem to be slowly coming back so...you never updated on what happened with Mr. Savoldi.

Thanks
David

Riversideboy wrote:


Are you conversing with him privately too? Why not post here?

Hello David,

Jack Evers has been on the road and unable to respond to this thread. He should be back home sometime late tonight and will hopefully catch up on this thread shortly thereafter.

Cheers,
Mark

Eli,
It appears she doesn't want to post anything further on this subject here.

Say WHAT?



This is so good to know, although I'm not sure what "it" is. I will be working with Mike Savoldi in less than 18 days so I will make sure to bring up your ideas and see what he thinks of you and your theories.

So how did the meeting go, Kim?

Did you actually get a chance to work hands on with him or just attend a lecture?

OK, don't share.........