Found an old trick for pulling front shoes on tricky feet

Been seeing more horses with those flat walls and underrun heels lately... finally tried that method an old farrier from Kentucky showed me back in '98. You file a small notch into the toe clip and run your crease nail angled forward instead of straight down. Tried it on three horses this week at the Miller farm and all of them held tight through a muddy paddock. Anybody else use that clip notch trick or have a better way to keep shoes from shifting?

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hollym1222d ago

That clip notch trick is genius, I've been doing it for years too! It really locks that shoe in place, especially on those soft feet that want to let everything wander.

coleman.christopher22d ago

Holly, not to be that guy, but it's actually a clip notch trick, not a clip notch trick. The notch goes on the shoe's footbed, not the clip itself. Pretty sure you knew that, just the way you wrote it sounds backwards.