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Erin - SERC Barefoot mileage winner
Erin belongs to one of our Barefootworks trimmers, Dawn. She's an eight year old Irish Draft X mare.
As an endurance rider, Dawn was resistant to barefoot for many years. In July 2005 Erin came up with a sudden lameness halfway through a competition ride, and was diagnosed with a fractured pedal bone (very marginal on x-ray). After three months wearing the same heart bar shoe on the right fore and an unclear prognosis of when the fracture might be healed, Dawn started to look for other solutions and rang Anni.
Erin's main problems were, apart from the shoeing, the length of her
toes, and height of her heels.
She also had very deep collateral grooves, which
were
infected and hadn't been treated, and at that time, poor frog condition.
Her back feet had been left bare since her injury, and had
much better health already.
