if you shorten breakover ( or allow it to be natural with a natural bare foot) the stride length is the same, but relative to the body moving through space, it occurs earlier, and so the horse can reach out from the shoulder and land heel first. If the breakover is late, which happens with a toe longer than it should be, the body has already travelled over the limb and the horse often lands toe first, which is detrimental.
Interesting vid. One problem--if u shoe or trim for breakover were coffin bone naturally sits--as farrier explains in vid--then one week later horse has toe that is longer than natural, two weeks more, three weeks more. So--do u trim or shoe with toe slightly back so that as hoof grows out in shoeing cycle there is a longer period of perfect balance toe to heel?
Looked like a magic sort of sunny day in the background
if you shorten breakover ( or allow it to be natural with a natural bare foot) the stride length is the same, but relative to the body moving through space, it occurs earlier, and so the horse can reach out from the shoulder and land heel first. If the breakover is late, which happens with a toe longer than it should be, the body has already travelled over the limb and the horse often lands toe first, which is detrimental.
What are your thoughts on hollow horses and founder? Seems every horse I know who founder easy are hollow backed.
Interesting vid. One problem--if u shoe or trim for breakover were coffin bone naturally sits--as farrier explains in vid--then one week later horse has toe that is longer than natural, two weeks more, three weeks more. So--do u trim or shoe with toe slightly back so that as hoof grows out in shoeing cycle there is a longer period of perfect balance toe to heel?
+frank brown We shoe our horses every five weeks, which is about the optimal so that horses don’t grown too much between shoeing.
Great video!