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Thank all you Ridecampers.  I printed out all your informative posts 
for my farrier to read.  Just wanted to add that, after reading all the 
particular suggestions and general discussions here, I've grown even 
more certain that our farrier is one of the best out there.  He leaves 
the edge you mentioned, he doesn't bend in the ends of the shoes and 
contract the heels, he checks angles really carefully and keeps records 
of what he's trying each time.  He marks old shoes and keeps them for 
cross-checking.  He works for improved foot mass and better heels.  He 
understands the whole NB thing. He hot shoes when necessary.  He goes 
to conferences and workshops.  He listens to vets and to me for 
anything worth hearing.  He's modest to a fault about his own 
expertise, and, most of all, he pays close attention to the way the 
horses move.  Just wanted to defend him from any little hints of 
suspicion that he's somehow to blame for my coon-footed, paddling, 
hollow-backed horse's problems....  I, on the other hand, am probably 
to blame for most of the above....

Thank all of you again for your very informed opinions.   I understand 
much more today than I did two days ago.

Mary K.  and a grateful Bruiser who didn't look completely as clownish 
or move as awkwardly in his Old Macs as we thought he might.


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