GUINNESS

This is Guinness. He's had this crack for many years and his owner despaired of every getting rid of it. She had previously kept him shod because of the crack. Notice in the left hand pic, how long in the foot he is? The crack is a direct result of this horse being too long in the toe and too high in the heels. I was trimming him every five weeks but it was simply too long between trims and we didn't make any progress until I started doing a two or three week touch-up job on his fronts. Then we managed to keep the pressure off the crack and it started to grow out. The photo on the right is taken a few months later. The crack is growing down. The foot is shorter. It is also developing a nice concavity underneath. Stay tuned for further improvement.