Weird shoe - anyone know what it is?

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A good friend who appreciates my hoof geekiness posted these on my FB account last night.

I am stumped - anyone know what it is?

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weirdshoeside.jpg
 
I don't know Obi-wan but there are dressage horses being shod with "rocker" shoes at the moment that do a similar thing with making the shoe unstable under the foot. Apparently people think this is OK because it makes the horses move "better" - as in score higher, I presume.
 
I can't see how you could get that on a horse with a normal hoof - from the pics it looks upside down going by the bevel and the position of the toe clip, I can only imagine (and it's a big imagine!) that it could be used surgically to support the pedal bone in a horse that had no sole? :confused: :confused:
 
At a nearby farm whee my friend keeps ponies a man digging with a metal detector found some well wierd shoes and when she did some research she found they were used on oxen.
 
The domed part goes upwards not downwards and is to support the sole of the foot, but as touchtone says, it is pretty deep and would suggest the horse has no sole or very thin soles. Indeed there are some horses whose soles you can press in with your thumb.
 
touchstone said:
I thought patten shoes raised the heels in a tendon injury though, looking at the one above it would rock?
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I thought there was a toe clip on the shoe which would mean the photograph is upside down, but maybe it isn't a toe clip and the shoe is the right way up?
 
Thanks, that's a clearer picture, shows it with the prongs going down. The fact the print said farm shoes made me wonder it it was adopted for ploughing or something.

Having said that in the first of Oberon's pictures the edge doesn't look flat enough to be the bit that makes contact with the wall.
 
touchstone said:
I can't see how you could get that on a horse with a normal hoof - from the pics it looks upside down going by the bevel and the position of the toe clip, I can only imagine (and it's a big imagine!) that it could be used surgically to support the pedal bone in a horse that had no sole? :confused: :confused:
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this was my thought too
 
I've seen these shoes before - they were used on horses who pulled carriages on cobble streets. The shoes sat in the grove between the cobbles, so then the horse was then technically walking on a flat surface and didn't slip.
I'm sure there is a video on youtube of them in use.
Probably not what they were used for at all, but I have seen something very similar to them :)
 
cptrayes said:
I don't know Obi-wan but there are dressage horses being shod with "rocker" shoes at the moment that do a similar thing with making the shoe unstable under the foot. Apparently people think this is OK because it makes the horses move "better" - as in score higher, I presume.
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You mean this horror :(

rockerdressageshoefront.jpg
 
I do indeed. I cannot imagine why they are legal in dressage. If a horse needs those shoes to score more points they ought to be illegal like pelham bit is.
 
That is the original Memphis shoe. Developed in USA for locking patella treatment. It was very unstable. The extra metal was on the ground not against the hoof
 
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