Q: I shoe Standardbred racehorses and I’ve been taught that if a horse is wearing his shoe down on one side more so than the other, then this is the side that needs to be lowered when it’s time to reshoe them. 

 While listening to Dr. Hiltrude Strasser and a panel of farriers, veterinarians and hoof-care specialists debate the German veterinarian’s controversial hoof-care theories, I kept hearing a veterinarian who wasn’t even there. 

Q: “How should a farrier treat cavities found in the sole?”