The scenario can begin in different ways. One involves you pulling the shoes, trimming the feet and noticing a small cavity just inside the white line. Picking up a nail, you give it a scratch and a powder-like substance comes out. More scratching leaves you part way up the hoof wall. Another involves having a horse with hoof walls separating in the most distal part of the foot. While probing the separation, you discover that not only is it separated at the bottom, it goes much higher.

The racing schedule can start to take a toll on horses in late September as the season matures and she had begun to run down on the right hind.

Soaking is a primary task when treating a horse’s foot for bruises, abscesses and puncture wounds. Yet, you should question the need for soaking and know that if you do, it can be taken too far.

Blake Brown stresses the importance of learning how to read a horse's conformation, particularly when dealing with adult horses.

Most horse owners have noticed that the surfaces of their horses hooves are not completely uniform from the coronary band to the ground.

Every summer, I have a couple of horses that destroy their hooves from stomping at flies and being in wet grass all night.