Barefoot but very flat footed...should i re-shod?

A lady I know pays a fortune for a "sports trim", wtf!! need I say any more...
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What on earth is a "sports trim"?

Does the trimmer transfer on decals of flames round the side of the hooves? Or maybe paint sparkly lightening bolts! :D

The mind boggles.
 
A lady I know spent thousands on her intermittently lame horse - on vets, farriers and remedial shoeing etc. Eventually they told her he had navicular syndrome and there was nothing more they could do so she should have the horse PTS. She decided to try barefoot instead - cost her a tiny fraction of what she'd spent on remedial shoeing and vets fees and she now has a fully sound horse who is back competing...
 
We have a horse on the yard with navicular. It's crippled with or without shoes.

So, as they say - it's horses for courses.
 
cptrayes said:
How do you know? He told you so?

Try asking him how many feet he was required to dissect as part of his training. And if it was a shod foot or an unshod one. Most farriers have never seen the inside of a (previously - before it died!) healthy working barefoot horse's foot. If they have seen the inside of a foot at all it would normally be one which has been shod, which becomes his benchmark for "normal". Among other things, Bowker's research on cadaver feet concluded that working barefoot horses have lateral cartilages which are around 4 times the volume of a shod horse and contain spiral blood capillaries which are not present in a shod horse's cartilage. Your farrier is a rare beast if he has this information.
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You better spout that to Hereford then, they'd have something to say about that assumption.
 
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