18/09/2026
🌱SPRING HOOF BALANCE SPECIAL⭐️
Good hoof balance is an essential part of keeping your horse sound, comfortable and moving well.
Our Hoof Balance Special includes X-rays of all four feet, allowing us to assess hoof balance and provide recommendations for your farrier.
For just $250, our Spring Hoof Balance Special includes X-rays of all four feet, including:
• Lateromedial views
• Dorsopalmar views
Want to check soundness too?
Add a Basic Soundness Check for just $100!
This includes:
✔️ Trot up
✔️ Flexion tests
✔️ Lunge assessment
Hoof Balance X-rays + Basic Soundness Check = just $350!
Visit, travel and sedation fees apply.
🦄 WHY IS HOOF BALANCE SO IMPORTANT?
Your horse’s hooves are the foundation of their movement and soundness. Incorrect hoof balance is a common contributing factor in lameness, which is why correct trimming and shoeing are so important.
A well-balanced hoof should be both functionally and biomechanically efficient, helping to minimise unnecessary strain on the tendons, ligaments and joints higher up the limb.
Hoof balance involves several important factors, including:
• Correct toe length
• A correct hoof-pastern axis
• Medial-lateral balance
• Appropriate break-over
For example, a “broken-back” hoof-pastern axis, often associated with long toes and under-run heels, can increase strain on the structures at the back of the limb, including the navicular bone, digital flexor tendons, and suspensory ligament. Predisposing a horse to navicular disease, chronic heel pain, tendon and ligament strains and quarter cracks in the hoof.
An upright hoof with a “broken-forward” hoof-pastern axis can place increased strain on the knee and fetlock joints. Which may predispose arthritic changes in these joints.
A correct break-over point will reduce leverage pressures on the hoof. The break-over is the final phase in the stride, as the hoof is leaving the ground to be moved forward. During motion a long toe acts as a long lever arm, thus increasing strain on the tendons and ligaments and slowing break-over.
Medial-lateral balance is also important, helping to ensure forces are distributed as evenly as possible through the limb.
Why X-rays? 🩻
Hoof balance can be difficult to assess accurately from the outside. Radiographs (X-rays) allow us to see what is happening inside the hoof.
This information can then be used to help guide your farrier with trimming and shoeing, taking your horse’s individual conformation and biomechanics into account.
Our portable X-ray machine means we can assess your horse wherever they are — or bring your horse to us and save on travel and visit fees!
🌱 Available for the rest of spring.
If you’d like to check your horse’s hoof balance and soundness, get in touch to book. 😊
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