Eventing

Equine High Impact Injury

Introduction [caption id="attachment_2218" align="alignright" width="300"] The load borne by each foot can be up to six times the body weight of the horse.[/caption] High impact injuries to equine feet and limbs are an all too common problem blighting many athletes’ career prospects or prematurely curtailing them. There...

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Limbo Dancer

Comfortable, Sound, and Winning

[caption id="attachment_2210" align="alignnone" width="500"] Limbo Dancer[/caption] Shortly after the winter dressage championships this year my horse developed a quarter crack on his off fore which, despite my farrier’s best efforts, was proving difficult to stabilise using conventional shoeing methods. On my farrier’s advice we were referred...

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