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    [RC] interference - Typef

    Barb:
     
    The rolled toe/squared heel was a suggestion someone made (can't remember who, trainer, dad, ridecamp) because I could hear her clipping her front shoes with her back shoes sometimes at the end of a ride when she was tired. It hasn't helped that very much. She didn't overreach up over the hoof and nick her canon bone like my old guy used to (he used to have the rolled toes/squared heels too years ago when he was competing) but just wasn't picking up her front feet quite as fast when she was tired, and hitting the back of her front shoe with her rear. Not being up on my "lingo" I'm not sure if that's called forging or not.
     
    Needless to say, I'll be trying to find a new farrier in the Lodi/Stockton, California area who can handle this kind of stuff. Mine seems to be a basic shoe guy. I love him as a person but I think I'm gonna have to give him up. I just discovered there is a retired couple living a few miles away from named Kirkpatrick and the wife just completed the Tevis with a two-month-old cracked rib from a nasty fall. My hat's off to her. I think I'll see if I can find her phone number and see who she uses.
     
     
    Barb Peck bpeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx
    I'm not on my home computer.. hense the guest message,

    Jackie:
      Here's a couple of possibilities for the change in your horses way of going.
     
      Most horses hinds tend to toe out just ever so lightly, therefore
    most will *not* break over dead center.
      If your farrier truly squared the toes of the hinds, then this will force break-over dead center.  If this is not where the horse naturally wants break-over, then there's going to be some
    stress somewhere.

      Or, there an medial-lateral hoof (side to side) imbalance...

    In any case, if this was a horse that was not interfering, and now is after the change in the hind shoeing, then I'd look at the shoeing first. (This was don to correct forging, right? Why did the horse forge? Conformation or something else?)

    Have the farrier try half-rounds on the hinds, they can break over any where they want with those.

    Barb