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COSMO --- (Mikes Little Toby x Rae Sarah McCoy) 1/2 Arab 1/2 SSH. DOB Jan.3rd, 2003. Gaited. Has completed all 5 rides I've entered him in so far. He has excellent recoveries, and usually scores very high on CTR's. Awesome little horse!!!! He is also my "natural hoof trim" guinea pig. I have learned to trim him myself, using Pete Ramey's methods. Cosmo is adapting VERY well. I can't wait to compete him next year, barefoot and booted. November, 2009. I finally got a pair of Easy Boot Gloves for Cosmo's front feet. I can't wait to put some miles on him and see how they do. I plan on putting alot of LSD miles on Cosmo over the winter, and starting him competing in the spring. I want to compete him barefoot as much as possible, and boot when I feel we need to. Learning to trim him myself has been one of the best things I ever did. I've been trimming him since June of this year. After doing him myself for about 4 months, I contacted a professional barefoot trimmer that I found on the internet. She lived an hour away from me, so I loaded Cosmo on the trailer one day and took him to her. I wanted her to "critique" my work, and see what she thought. That lady is Vicki Kline, in Hamburg, Pa. She had nothing negative to say about my work. She couldn't believe I learned to trim myself from a book (Pete Ramey's "Making Natural Hoof Care Work for You"). So I spent a couple of hours with her learning as much as I could. Best birthday present I could have asked for. So now I am trimming my own horses, and some for a couple of friends. They LOVE the differance in their horses performance. Once of them was a trippy horse, and she reports that the tripping on trail is gone. I am available in the Weatherly, Pa. to do local trimming if anyone is interested. I suggest if you are interested, that you look up websites on the internet and learn what you can about the "mustang trim" method. I don't think you will regret it. I will stress that I am not certified. And I am not a farrier. Just a self-trained, barefoot trimmer. pic of Cosmo's foot below..... The hoof, the whole hoof, and NOTHING but the hoof.  |
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