Posted on 06/23/2008 8:00:49 AM PDT by TexasNative2000
A photo taken during the early stages of the Belmont Stakes has revealed Big Brown was running with a loose shoe as the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner attempted to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1979, Newsday reported Monday.
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Facinating stuff!
Looks like aluminum to me. Looks like a regular racing plate without the nail holes. BUT why would they be $ 550/pr. unless they are made of some other metal? (Titanium or something like that?) I would want them to be at least sterling silver before I would pay $ 550 for horse shoes!
“I would want them to be at least sterling silver before I would pay $ 550 for horse shoes!”
Ha. I hear ya.
Interesting the way the hook is glued to the hoof and around the shoe. According to the link, it will last over 3 weeks. Haven’t seen a max yet. Still reading.
Just googled “glue-on racing plates” and apparently from skimming articles it appears that the shoes come in aluminum, aluminum alloy (doesn’t say what other metal) and plastic.
Well, it does look bent... not loose really but bent. There are no nails ever driven in the back half of the foot. The nail you can sortof see the head of there is the last one.
The skill of the application. The value in horse shoeing is not in the metal.
It's been a number of years since I was in any way part of the racing industry, and since then there have been a lot of innovations in all aspects of horse care, farriery included. How often a horse gets his feet trimmed and his shoes on or reset depends wholly on the preferences of his trainer. So God knows, with this trainer. Me, my preference is barefoot, too, but that isn't always possible.
Holy heavens. What an amazing picture. It’s not surprising he put in a poor showing with that thing flapping in the wind.
No. That was the cost of a pair of shoes, not the farrier’s charges to apply them. Doesn’t make much sense that aluminum shoes without nail holes would be $ 450+ more than a set of regular nail-on racing plates.
Either the racing form or the B-H which I read daily. I was astonished that the cost of a pr. of shoes alone were $ 550, and that some trainers had talked their owners into shoeing nearly every horse with glue-on shoes. I have NEVER seen anywhere the costs of a shoe JOB by Ian McKinlay.
People don’t buy or account for shoes separate from the farrier. I would bet money you’re mistaken. The $550 cost is the whole show, the farrier’s labor to put them on. The actual cost of the shoes and materials is negligible.
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Looks like he could have been toed from behind, or acted up in the gate maybe.
“For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost.
For the want of a horse, the kingdom was lost.”
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