Trimming my mare 05/24/2010
 
Its just so easy to maintain a healthy footed horse! I tweaked her a week and half ago and since it rained yesterday, I decided to give her a proper trim, Her feet have excellent concavity, great suspension, excellent wall horn and good laminar connection. It only took me a few minutes with the rain softened feet to trim a little off the bars and heels and the caulky sole. I rasped the edge of the wall all around and boom! its done! Perfect feet! Perfect trim!
 
 

My husband and I took two of my horses up to ride on the Pilot Mountain trails. the trails are somewhat rocky and gravelly and I had just trimmed my flatter footed gelding so I decided to put boots on him. He was really good with the boots, landing heel first, striding out and going over everything. My mare was great without boots. She was careful but not bothered by the rocks.
I saw a pretty bay quarter horse tied up to the hitching post when we got back to the trailers.  He was shod of course, and took pitifully short tsteps and was lame when he was ridden off.