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The information presented on this blog represents "learning in progress" on my part, a horse owner, who was not satisfied with professional farriers and took matters in my own hands. As far as I am aware at the time of the post, the information presented is correct, but may change with me understanding more about hooves, in which case I will edit or remove the post. In order to follow my learning and understand everything about Molly's hoof, you need to start reading at the bottom.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

break-over



I spent some time analyzing Molly's FR x-ray. In particular I have tried to see where the break over is with respect to the tip of the frog. I did not have a precise marker on the x ray but I did have that head of the drawing pin, that I assumed to be 8mm wide. Based on that I have measured the distance between frog apex (drawing pin) and break over. It is exactly 1 inch, which corresponds exactly to Gene Ovniceks finding:

http://www.fqha.com/articles/Wild%20horse%20hoof%20pattern.htm

"The distance from the apex of the frog to the point of break-over ranged from 1 inch in small feet to 1 1/2 inches in the largest feet. No correlation between environment and point of break-over was noted."

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