Brian Pelham (Clarksville, Mich.)
We had this horse, a standardbred race horse who developed a severe case of laminitis. Through Brian's knowledge and expertise in shoes and padding, we were able to get Comander another 6 years of quality life. Brian developed special shoes and padding for Commander, and while he could still walk and run his racing days were over. Commander was like the "great uncle" to all the baby race horses we would bring home during the break in their 2- to 3-year-old racing seasons.
Brian has trimmed and shod all of our horses and has done an outstanding job. Another story about Brian, we have this world-class trotter, Northern Kingdom. The trainers in Canada like the toes of the trotter to be long so they can glide better. Well, they let the toes grow out so long that his coffin bone started rotating up and he was dead lame. We found this through X-rays. While the Canadian trainers were treating him for knee problems, it was actually his foot. Brian, once again, trimmed this. horse slowing back to a normal length and shoed him during that time to give him comfort.
Without Brian we would have lost two world-class horses way too early.
— Scott Edwards (Alto, Mich.)
