Article: The horse owner's guide to shoeing & trimming horses. (part 2)

Part II

Another interesting point related to angle and your farrier's tools has to do with the wooden handle on the rasp. Some horse owners have a rasp to trim up their horse's feet between visits from the farrier, to keep the feet from chipping up. This often results in the horse's heels and angle being lowered too much. Why? It is natural when using a rasp which has a handle on it, to push downward on the handle more than you push forward, because your hand and weight are above the handle and not behind it. When you start to rasp at the heels and push toward the toe, you unknowingly push down on the heels and remove more hoofwall from the heels than from the rest of ...

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