| Bowed tendons on a horse can be murder. The | | | | stress the fatigue the improper shoeing and strike |
| deep flexor tendon between the knee and the | | | | three the tendon blows. |
| pastern joint blows due to excessive stress and | | | | To minimize the possibility of bowed tendons |
| stretch. It's a long recovery process sometimes | | | | obviously reverse some of the above elements. |
| leaving a blemish. | | | | Don't work your horse to such exhaustion, don't |
| There can be several elements that can all | | | | have a long toe and make sure everything else |
| contribute to this problem. Hard work is surely | | | | about the shoeing is very correct. Give your |
| one while incorrect shoeing the other. A quick look | | | | horse a little bit of heel (don't trim the heels down |
| at race horses and how prevalent bowed tendons | | | | too short) it's somewhat the same as too long |
| occur can give you some clues to a deeper | | | | toe in how it creates stress to the joints and |
| understanding into this issue. Race horses are | | | | tendons. So move the shoe to the rear of the |
| definitely worked hard - at the end of the race | | | | horse (to shorten the toe) increase heel and then |
| horses are completely exhausted. In this condition | | | | be careful with the exhaustion factor and you're |
| of exhaustion and fatigue the muscles of the | | | | starting to gain on the prevention of lameness. |
| body are not carrying the horse in the most | | | | Now there are other necessary aspects to the |
| optimum manner-hence a breakdown. | | | | shoeing that are also most important to |
| Race horses are shod typically with a longer toe | | | | prevention but are much more difficult to discuss |
| than normally acceptable. The length of toe | | | | in a text format. Unfortunately these methods |
| creates a lever for the horse to drive off of | | | | are not readily available in the horse shoeing |
| creating more speed- just a little added thrust as | | | | schools or horse shoeing textbooks so you will be |
| the hoof breaks over. The above two mentioned | | | | wasting a lot of your time researching and |
| instances combined with other factors (not | | | | researching. However - I have a 16 year 100% |
| absolutely correct shoeing) all contribute to the | | | | track record "Not One Single Lame Horse" due to |
| increase of the possibility of bowed tendons. | | | | the methods I've discovered for myself as a |
| When the toe of the foot is long it "Sticks" to the | | | | farrier for over 16 years now. I know what |
| ground longer as the horse moves forward; this | | | | you're thinking "you want this information for |
| stretches the deep flexor tendon and stresses | | | | yourself" - and "How do you get it"? |
| the leg. When the horse starts to tire during hard | | | | OK. Just go to the website link below in the |
| work such as a race the stresses increase as the | | | | author bio "Now" before you forget. Go ahead |
| muscles stop carrying the body correctly. The | | | | your horse will love you for it. That's a promise. |