Once hooves are healthy, roadwork (ridden or driven) provides great stimulus and there are the added benefits of having better traction barefoot and the fact that a strong digital cushion and functioning frog provide excellent shock-absorption, protecting legs from concussion.
These 2 great driving photos are both taken of competition horses - the top one sent to me by Carol Wilkson, of her lovely horse in a trade showing class, with an old-fashioned ice-cream van! Paul Jackson, one of the UKNHCP farriers, looks after this horse's hooves, and they are apparently causing quite a stir among the driving fraternity in Cheshire :-)
The lower photo is the marathon section of a driving trial - the wheeled equivalent of the cross-country phase in eventing - and pictures the go-faster Campbell family with one of their barefoot Gelderlanders :-)
The lower photo is the marathon section of a driving trial - the wheeled equivalent of the cross-country phase in eventing - and pictures the go-faster Campbell family with one of their barefoot Gelderlanders :-)
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