Read about some of the horses that I am working with, and some of my friend's horses.
These pages are new and will be updated on a regular basis as time allows
Left: Horses belonging to an elderly First Nations gentleman I met on the Bear Claw Nation Reserve near Kananaskis to the west of Calgary. We sat on a rock bench and shared lunch watching his horses who had beautiful bare feet. He had never heard of laminitis, or gras that grew green all year! I have a standing invitation to go out trail riding with him next time I am out in Calgary.
Left: Here is a fun video from Nic Barker's site. Here you can watch two barefoot hunt hirelings Foxy and Conto out with the Exmoor Foxhounds - proving that barefoot horses can perform spectacularly well over all surfaces in some of the most demanding terrain.
Nic Barker is based at Rockley farm in Devon and rehabilitates horses with lower leg problems - impossibly soft crumbling hooves, navicular syndrome, DDFT lesions, laminitis and other such "hopeless" cases. Her track system is one of the key tools in rehabilitating these horses. It shows how otherwise marginal ground can be brought into use providing a variety of surface from comforting to challenging to create an environment where hooves can be regrown and horses rehabilitated.
Foxy and Conto are two such horses. Visit http://www.rockleyfarm.co.uk/ to read more about Nic's rehabilitation work.