#theclassicalhorse

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@themotherfuckingclickerkid @theclassicalhorse While I was looking for suggestions on how to teach Dakota to ground-tie, this popped up. I really don’t like this video but I can’t put my finger on why… Any ideas?

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ok so this person, theclassicalhorse , has an amazingly beautiful horse and i spent 30 minutes just scrolling through their blog because this horse is such a silly cutie butt. and to top it all off, the horse is named Babaloo. LIKE HOW AWESOME IS THAT NAME AMIRIGHT?

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theclassicalhorse reblogged your photo and added:

gorgeous! who is this?

One of the students at a clinic I went to last weekend!  She was riding a borrowed horse because she was having troubles arranging a trailer for her mare.  I believe he is an andalusian cross.  I think they said he might be an azteca?

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theclassicalhorse reblogged your photo and added:

Half pass?

No, but good guess.

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Hello this is theclassicalhorse: Im really curious about the difference between normal horseshoes and egg bar shoes that keep contact with the heel and the frog. Obviously, the fact that the shoe is still inflexible and rigid on the hoof is a bad thing, but because the frog is in contact with the shoe in egg bar shoes, would these be a "healthier" shoe rather than shoes that do not let the frog touch anything? do they actually provide more "support" like all farriers seem to claim?

Hey there, tagging barefoothooves just in case they want to weigh in.

Egg bar shoes don't offer support, they offer rigidity.  They're a corrective shoe, useful in cases where you're trying to set a coffin bone fracture, maybe.  Not for everyday use.

See the regular shoe still allows dirt and debris to compact up into it, and that's good!  The regular barefoot hoof will do this as well, it's designed to.  This packing actually offers a bit of protection and support to the structures that support the coffin bone.  The egg bar shoe doesn't really allow for that packing at the back of the foot, so imo it actually robs the foot of that ... more comfortable method of support.  

And then, in wetter conditions or if the horse is standing on manure for whatever reason, stall kept or whatever, you want to pick the foot out but it becomes much harder to reach the edges of the collateral grooves and the central sulcus.  That just seems to be asking for disease.

So yeah, for regular use I'd pick the regular shoe over the egg bar.  And keep them in clean, dry conditions - on pea gravel if possible - so that they can still get a bit of support and stimulation.  At least until they go barefoot again and the hoof has a chance to recover.

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theclassicalhorse reblogged your post Typical of his breed, Xen has been rem... and added:

Im just begining to research padock paradise set ups and tracks and im extremly interested!

If you want to see what mine looks like you can check out my paddock paradise tag.

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theclassicalhorse reblogged your post and added:

Oh haha sorry i can not figure out tumblr...

Oh, haha! That's okay, no worries.  

And I'm not sure how much of it was unwillingness and how much was just her really enjoying the sand and thinking a lie down was an acceptable response to what we were asking of her.  It's really interesting how creative some of them can get when they're throwing out behaviours!

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theclassicalhorse reblogged your post Everytime I see a picture of a broken ... and added:

Please draw more

Haha, why?  Do you have any requests?