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In 1994, I conducted a preliminary study of hair whorl patterns and racing performance on 290 Thoroughbred horses during the racing season at Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California. Performance data was collected from The Daily Racing Form, a statistical service for bettors on horse racing in the United States. Back at Colorado State University, […]
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Several years ago, after I started working with Temple Grandin at Colorado State, I was working part-time training and shoeing horses to fund my hair whorl studies; I was fortunate to find and gain the trust of the owner of a first-rate showing jumping barn in Colorado that gave me so much work that my […]
This chart shows common trimming mistakes farriers frequently make that can cause bio-mechanical imbalances often missed or mistaken for pathological conditions by veterinarians and other paramedical practitioners. The purpose of this post is to educate the public. It serves as a plea to return to a time when every horse ailment did not indicate some […]
Look at the shoeing on this x-ray. The Golden Rule of Horseshoeing is to “Shape the shoe to fit the foot and not the foot to fit the shoe.” The shoe set back from the toe in this image exemplifies what not to do. The toe is filed back to meet the shoe. Don’t let […]
