From The Classroom To The Barn

Continued education through conferences, clinics, books and other sources acts as an important base for any successful farrier. The Glass Horse not only brings hoof-care education to the computer, but also presents farriers with an interactive 3-D exploration of the horse’s foot that no textbook can match. Moreover, the program accompanies the interactive models of the distal limb with informative narrations composed of the lecture notes of Professor Andrew Parks at the University of Georgia, who worked on The Glass Horse as a content advisor.

“It’s all about how you think about things,” says Parks, while stressing the uniqueness of the program’s interactive models. “It’s not what you know, but all about how you think about what you know.”

Understanding the 3-D shapes of the limb can help farriers visualize what is going on inside a horse’s foot. Farrier John Suttle of Valley Ford, Calif…