Showing posts with label toe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toe. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Favorite Photo: Proof That Elephants Are Smarter Than Horses When It's Time for Hoofcare

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Why won't a horse do this for its farrier? An elephant offers its foot to a handler for cleaning at Taronga Wesern Plains Zoo in Dubb...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Monmouth Park Loosens Track Shoeing Rules to Allow 4mm Toe Grab

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by Fran Jurga | 14 August 2009 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog Monmouth Park in New Jersey is the latest track in the Mid Atlantic region to t...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Rethinking Toe Grabs? Model Rule Adjustment Recommended to Allow 4mm Grabs on Dirt Racetracks

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(Statement from The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Safety Committee issued 22 July 2009) "After discussions with industry participants and a...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Favorite Photo: This Horse Was In Good Hands

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by Fran Jurga | 11 March 2009 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog "You're in Good Hands" by Dwight Usry This photo just showed up i...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Turfway Park Brings Back Toe Grabs on Hind Shoes After Eight Horses Break Down in December

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You know those hind shoes you just threw away? Most of the shoes in this pile are old draft horse shoes with holes where removable calks c...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Churchill, Arlington, Calder and The Fair Grounds All Ban Toe Grabs

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Trainer Steve Asmussen paid close attention to how Steve Norman was trimming his filly Pocahontas during Derby Week at Churchill Downs in 20...
Friday, July 18, 2008

Another Word About Toe Grabs

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Unless you are embedded in the world of horseshoes, you might not know what a toe grab is. It is cleat, basically, that protrudes from th...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Hoof-La Update from Dutrow: "It Still Wasn't the Loose Shoe"

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Smoking Gun? The article in this week's Blood-Horse about Big Brown's loose shoe in the Belmont, shown in this closeup from a Russ M...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Jockey Club Calls for Ban of All Traction Devices on Front Shoes of Racehorses

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A press release from the Jockey Club yesterday calls for immediate action to change front shoe regulations of racehorses immediately. The ed...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Horses and Humans Rock On: MBT Shoes

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You are looking at the profile of the must-have human shoe around the Boston area these days. Does it remind you of anything? These MBT &quo...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007

"Hoofcare@Saratoga" Toe Grab Forum Explored Thoroughbred Shoeing

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK--An evening dedicated to the proposed ban of toe grabs by state racing commissioners brought out a diverse group...