Future research is more likely to find a pharmacological cure for systemic laminitis than for overload weight-bearing laminitis, maintains equine veterinarian Larry Bramlage. The surgeon with Rood and Riddle in Lexington, Ky., defines systemic laminitis as a disease process that liberates enough mediators within the body to trigger the separation of the hoof wall.

 In my travels and years of shoeing horses, I’ve worked with at least 100 shoers. 

With balance being so critical to the success of trotting horses, it’s no wonder that Charles Arthur McLellan devoted a lot of space to the topic in his 1927 book, “The Art Of Shoeing And Balancing The Trotter,” which has been reissued by American Farriers Journal as part of “The Farrier Classics” series.