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As my gelding got in better shape, he started interfering where his front R would hit the cannon bone on the front L. We were puzzled since the wear on the shoe was perfectly even with a breakover at dead center. At a walk, he picked up & landed the foot perfectly straight and level. At a trot, it picked up and landed level, but winged in ever so slightly.
We had to look at the rest of the horse - not just the foot & leg. He had a horrible injury as a yearling - tore up his R shoulder, had (& still has) adhesions. The breeding farm gave him away, not expecting him to ever be sound. As he became more fit, he started using accessory muscles in his mid chest to pull that R leg forward. It was swinging the foot in ever so slightly. Past a certain point, the normal muscles could come back into play and the foot flight straightened and landed fine.
Our lurking rolfer (Pasqual) gave me some excellent exercises to do with him that has helped tremendously. We weren't able to break down any of the 12 year old adhesions, but we were able to retrain some muscles to keep the foot's flight more straight. We tried lowering the outside walls - never tried trailers. It didn't change his way of going a bit, and he was actually a little sore from it.
Linda
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave & Abby Bloxsom [mailto:cyclone@snet.net]
>> Okay, if lowering outside walls and adding a slight trailer works on
> horses that interfere in the hind end - what about the front end?
Keep in mind that this (lowering outside walls and adding a slight
trailer) only works if that's what the horse needs. The key is to
balance each foot on its own, and the foot should fly in a straight line
from where it's lifted up to where it's set down.
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