why are foot problems so common?

cptrayes said:
How interesting! I've heard a trimmer before say that he 'leaves' the heels higher on high level dressage horses. I didn't believe him, because my horses would just wear away anything they didn't want. And of course your experience is showing that he wasn't 'leaving' the heels higher, they are where horses working at that level put them for themselves. As long as the frog still contacts the floor, it must be right, and they must need them like that for some reason. I wonder why?
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Just musings....there was an article in H&H a whole back that caused much outrage, as it said that in the collected canter horses can break the three beat rhythm by touching down with the outside foreleg prior to the inside hind......would it be physically possibly to do that and land heel first? Similarly in the pi/pa do they always land heel first? Could it be to do with landing toe first in a soft very supportive but none abrasive surface? Need to go and watch some slow mo vids....could be barking up the wrong tree ( and would like to clarify in their working w/t/c both ours def land heel first it's the ultra collection I'm pondering).
 
Prince33Sp4rkle said:
Just musings....there was an article in H&H a whole back that caused much outrage, as it said that in the collected canter horses can break the three beat rhythm by touching down with the outside foreleg prior to the inside hind......would it be physically possibly to do that and land heel first? Similarly in the pi/pa do they always land heel first? Could it be to do with landing toe first in a soft very supportive but none abrasive surface? Need to go and watch some slow mo vids....could be barking up the wrong tree ( and would like to clarify in their working w/t/c both ours def land heel first it's the ultra collection I'm pondering).
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Good points PS :)

My guess is that in slomo, the highly collected movements will be toe first landing, and my guess after that would be that the increase in heel height is to lessen the extent of the toe first landing to protect the ddft that gets damaged by too much toe first work, from Rooney' s research.
 
Faracat said:
Did your farrier ever mention that there was a problem though? When someone has trained for X number of years, they should know what a good hoof looks like and what a poor hoof looks like. I actually wonder if farriers have become too used to seeing shoe sick hooves too, so it's normal to them?
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I ask myself this question a lot I am not sure what the answer is .
I saw a horse (youngish ) recently whose feet screaming for a break why don't the farriers say something ?
Is it
Bad for business.
They are so used to seeing sick hooves they don't notice .
They have not got a clue
They don't care
Or they get worn down over time from dealing with thick owners who don't want to hear anything other that the shoes stay on for eight weeks .
I just don't know .
 
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