The many appliances used in high fidelity farriery…

Trim

Casting

Steel

Standard (open heel)

Wedge

Natural Balance

 

 

 

 

Traction devices:

Drill tech aka borium: These are different products, but people seem to call it all borium. I typically use drill tech which is what is in this picture. It is used mostly on fox hunters and trail riders that are often on the roads.

Dressage hand made hind with lateral trailer

Kerckhaert DF Grand Prix with lateral trailer

Therapeutic appliances

Bar shoe

Open toe bar shoe

Used primarily for laminitis or seedy toe.

Heart bar

Heart bar used with quarter cracks

Rail shoe: Used mostly for chronic laminitis and/or de-rotation in conjunction with a tenotomy.

Palmar plates: The ugly one on top (built during a cold rainy wind storm) is to apply frog pressure to restore function and the pretty one on the bottom (built in the shop) is to remove pressure for a fractured coffin bone.

Aluminum bar/ plate shoe.

Aluminum bar/ plate shoe.

Medicine plate:

 

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  1. The world returns to Lexington in April 2011 for the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event and the new Ariat Kentucky Reining Cup!  

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