Jumpers need a lot of help on the front and hind to support a huge launch and landing. We are not looking so much at a type of movement, but more the ability of the horse and rider to get around the course. A farrier needs to consider proper support and traction.
My jumper clients tend to like fairly heavy toe clipped front shoes and equally thick but slightly more narrow webbed quarter clipped hind shoes. All shoes for jumpers are drilled and tapped.
Shoeing the eventer hind.
Using Kerckhaert sx8 hinds, this horse is all set up to work on the roads with those drive in studs or on the grass using the drilled and tapped holes to place caulks. I know it seems that I have trailers on all my hinds if you look around at this site, but I swear [...]
Kate Levy
Wellington
Great jumper album
Carolo López-Quesada’s Facebook jumper album. Great stuff.
Stadium Jumping, Inc.
Upcoming Competitions
2011 Lake Placid Series
NARG Top 25 Show
Lake Placid Horse Show, June 28 – July 3, 2011
USHJA International Hunter Derby
Love New York Horse Show, July 5 – 10, 2011
Lateral support
Studies show that properly applied lateral support can greatly reduce the need for hock injections.
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