Shoeing a specific specialized breed or type of horse.... ↪ Read more

[from the Old French espavent]: Any swelling or abnormal growth in or on the hock. A "bog spavin" is a soft swelling on the medial and/or dorsal surface of the hock. A "blood spavin" is an enlarged vein, and a harmless blemish. A "bone spavin" is an exostosis on any of the tarsal bones. Large bone... ↪ Read more

Describes a horse who is not lame, and has no conditions or defects likely to lead to lameness in the future.... ↪ Read more

The bottom aspect of the horse's hoof.... ↪ Read more

A combination hoofpick and hammer often carried aboard coaches. Used to break up and remove packed snow and ice from the horse's hooves.... ↪ Read more

smithy:(1) The building or shop in which a blacksmith or farrier works and keeps his tools. (2) Incorrectly used as a synonym for the blacksmith or horseshoer, which is a bit like calling an auto mechanic a garage.... ↪ Read more

A sloping pastern is one that is lower than 50 degrees.... ↪ Read more

Sloping hooves are those with a low angle to the ground, usually 50 degrees or less.... ↪ Read more

A flat horseshoe with nothing on it.... ↪ Read more

A horse's paternal ancestor (father).... ↪ Read more

A grave case of founder in which laminitis has destroyed so many of the laminae that the bone column is no longer suspended and begins to sink within the hoof.... ↪ Read more

Brand of rasps and other farrier products from 1832 to the present.... ↪ Read more