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[RC] high heel/low heel, asymmetric shoulder - k s swigart

Barbara McCrary said:


One of my best endurance horses had a high/low syndrome
?and he was fine until farriers tried to "fix" it by wedging shoes,
?etc.?Eventually he went lame in his later years and I suspect
?had we left him alone he would have been fine.? 

?
There is no way to tell, from the information presented here, whether the 
farriers attempts at fixing this horse lengthened or shortened the horse's 
soundness. It may be that if the horse had been left alone, he would have gone 
lame sooner than "in his later years."
?
And I am not sure that there is any way to find out.?The causal links between 
the syndrome, the attempt at fixing it, and the going lame are too tenuous to 
know whether to know whether the lameness was because of or in spite of the 
"fix."
?
kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)

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