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I posted the after-shoeing pics of Bay over on the other forum, but I thought I'd post Cyn's here... This is her after trim and file, but before he'd put her on the toe stand and cleaned up the edge.

I didn't hose it off or poke around in that dirt to see if there's really a separation there at the white line, he's still holding it. I can do that if you think it's a concern though!

And on Bay, you weren't off base at all... just not sure what to say to Mark about it.

Cyn's heels still look like they should have been trimmed further back. The ends of the heels should be even with the widest part of the frog, so judging by that picture, they could've been rasped back another quarter to half an inch. Another indication that the heels are still a bit long is the way her bars are hooking in towards the back of the heels. She's still got black areas in front of them, which generally means that you should dig down deeper right there with the hoof knife in search of the live sole. When you find live sole, then you can rasp down to that level. It looks like he got down to the live sole in the center part of her foot and even got down a little too much at the toe, as evidenced by the flat spot there, but that's what most farrier's do when they're getting ready to set a shoe.

In the picture I marked up below, the green dots are where I think the heels should end. The yellow dots are where they actually do end. The red line at the quarters is where I think she's got some separation issues, and the red line at the bars is where they could have been pared down to get to the live sole. The blue line is how her bars should be shaped if her feet were in perfect condition. I would also have beveled her hoof wall to a 45* angle from the widest part of her foot forward to the toe. Doing that and maintaining that bevel will stop that separation in the quarters and allow it to grow out. The bevel actually makes the ground press IN on the hoof wall rather than pushing it OUT.

So there's my arm-chair quarterback assessment

I'll go over to the other forum to look at Bay's after pictures and see what the REAL farriers had to say about them.