Re: RC: Corrective/Pathological Shoeing

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

At 10:32 AM 9/27/99 EDT, you wrote:
>I would respectfully caution riders, who ride the miles required in 
>endurance, against considering "trailers" on rear feet, particularly on 
>horses who are "old enough to do endurance".
>    Corrective shoeing to "correct (help, aid, etc.) hoof growth, underslung 
>heels, etc., is, for the most part, okay.
>    But when "corrective" shoeing is employed in the rear to
"straighten-out" 
>cowhocked horses, then years of limb-alignment and biomechanisms that the 
>horse has employed (and has learned to manage) are impacted in such a way 
>that serious descript and non-descript lameness can occur.


	Thank you, thank you, thank you! You saved me a lot of typing <G>.

				--CMNewell, DVM





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