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"And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew his breath over it and created the horse." Bedouin Legend
Caliente
Caliente lived here, in a 200x200' high desert sand paddock in California. He was with two other horses and their play kept everyone moving. Part of the time he was trimmed by any farrier I could find. Then one trim by me supervised by 'Bergy.' Then trimmed by me out of Jamie Jackson's books and eventually, just before leaving California by James Wellz, CSHS and myself using the Strasser Protocols. The pictures here are from my Jaimie Jackson period. He's clearly contracted in the fronts, his heels are a tad too high, he doesn't have enough scooping in his quarters and he's having separation of white line issues in his hinds suggesting that they are unbalanced. I would say this is my interpretation of the various trims on him and that I was struggling with all this at that time.
To the Sugar Sand Land, Ormond Beach, Florida
After his trip across the country in an air ride semi he was a little tense. Not so much from the ride itself as having gotten lost in 'the cracks' and left for two weeks in Texas. But to his new home at last he was now on 3 acres of grass, weeds and sand and with a pasture buddy. I was worried about the sand but you can see his feet are decontracting. In his hinds the white line separation has really closed though you can see there is something going on in his right hind indicated by the frog pointing to the inside. It was a problem in his pelvis. It caused that right hind to point out and a lot of 'hook' growth in the outside heel buttress. What's between my thumb and forefinger in his left front shown in the caudal view is scar tissue from the wire cut that went all the way to the artery in the spring of 2002.
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