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    <title>Hoof Beats</title>
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      <![CDATA[Veteran Standardbred farrier Steve Stanley of Lexington, Ky., authors a monthly column for Hoof Beats, the official harness racing publication of the U.S. Trotting Association. The <em>American Farriers Journal</em> Editorial Advisory Board member offers plenty of practical advice that will be of special interest regardless of the type of horses that you work with.]]>
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      <title>Conformational Corrections in Foals</title>
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        <![CDATA[With foaling season once again upon us it is a good idea to revisit strategies for conformational corrections.  The first important aspect is regular farrier visits and daily farm inspections.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/12287</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 09:06:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/12287-conformational-corrections-in-foals</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Managing Hoof Distortion in Performance Horses</title>
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        <![CDATA[The balance and levelness of the hind hoof has been a key component of “clean” gaited horses for more than 100 years. Having read books written that long ago, I realized that they had many of the same issues back then that we still deal with today.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/11267</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:08:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/11267-managing-hoof-distortion-in-performance-horses</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: The Language Of Conformation</title>
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        <![CDATA[In today's breeding environment, raising a foal to sell at a yearling sale or race at 2 routinely requires some type of veterinary or clinical assistance regarding conformation.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/9467</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:07:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/9467-hoof-beats-the-language-of-conformation</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Point Of View</title>
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        <![CDATA[Extreme weather like we have been seeing this summer can affect the horse's hooves mightily. Obviously, the most affected horses are those who are out in it more.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/9378</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/9378-hoof-beats-point-of-view</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Diamonds in the Rough</title>
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        <![CDATA[As foals develop into weanlings and then yearlings, it is important to establish and maintain hoof capsule balance.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/9260</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2017 18:37:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/9260-hoof-beats-diamonds-in-the-rough</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: “One Tough Horse”</title>
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        <![CDATA[Last fall, a client was breaking one of the yearlings in his barn. After the colt started to jog regularly, we noticed this colt&rsquo;s propensity to knuckle over.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/9092</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/9092-hoof-beats-one-tough-horse</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Climate Change</title>
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        <![CDATA[Mother nature and breeding sheds can have a huge influence on hoof care.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/9078</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:26:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/9078-hoof-beats-climate-change</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: The Bruise Brothers</title>
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        <![CDATA[Any time trimming the hoof reveals a bruise, three questions arise: Why is it there? How much is it affecting my horse? What can we do to help it?]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8954</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8954-hoof-beats-the-bruise-brothers</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Beneficial Change</title>
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        <![CDATA[The flip-flop pad is a great application in harness racing. Often used for sore knees, flip flops help many horses with back-in-knee conformation. One thing the flip flop is not great for is sore heels, which are prominent among performance horses of all breeds.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8909</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:42:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8909-hoof-beats-beneficial-change</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Stinky Frog</title>
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        <![CDATA[Canker is a rare hoof disorder that involves the frog of a hoof. I personally have seen only two or three canker cases over many years of shoeing.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8834</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:58:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8834-hoof-beats-stinky-frog</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Be On The Lookout For Heel Shear</title>
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        <![CDATA[Heel shear is easily detected by palpating the ungula cartilages, even if it is not visually obvious or your eye is not used to picking up on it.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8766</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8766-hoof-beats-be-on-the-lookout-for-heel-shear</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: School Of Hard Knocks</title>
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        <![CDATA[Knee-knockers are a major headache to all horsemen at one time or another. Concern, frustration, and time lost can take them to the edge of their tolerance. The main reason for frustration is not knowing why the horse is hitting his knees.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8719</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8719-hoof-beats-school-of-hard-knocks</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Shock And Awe</title>
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        <![CDATA[I have written much about the hoof dissipating a great deal of the impact forces between the horse and the ground and want to illustrate two of the main components of that effect.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8650</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8650-hoof-beats-shock-and-awe</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: The Amazing Frog</title>
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        <![CDATA[Everyone in the horse industry has, at one time or another, picked up a horse’s hoof and looked at the bottom. Many of us do this every day. When viewing the bottom of a hoof, the eyes are drawn immediately to a focal point, the frog.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8577</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8577-hoof-beats-the-amazing-frog</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Checks and Balances</title>
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        <![CDATA[The check ligaments of the horse are a bit of a tricky structure.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8376</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8376-hoof-beats-checks-and-balances</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: In Suspense</title>
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        <![CDATA[In my last two articles, I started discussions about lower limb function. Having written about the superficial and deep flexor tendons, I believe it would be a mistake not to bring the suspensory ligament (SL) into this series.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8250</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8250-hoof-beats-in-suspense</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Hidden Issues</title>
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        <![CDATA[To follow up on the article on the superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT), I believe some thoughts on the deep digital flexor tendon (DDFT) are in order.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8173</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:37:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8173-hoof-beats-hidden-issues</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Don’t Bow To The Bow</title>
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        <![CDATA[Anybody associated with performance horses as a career has seen, and had to deal with, tendon injuries. A bowed tendon is one of the most prominent and debilitating injuries in horse racing.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8111</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8111-hoof-beats-dont-bow-to-the-bow</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: When To Wedge</title>
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        <![CDATA[Deciding if a horse should wear a wedge pad or shoe is a delicate thing.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8040</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8040-hoof-beats-when-to-wedge</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Successful Experiment</title>
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        <![CDATA[The regular egg bar shoe is essentially a therapeutic device. The extreme depth of the shoe and the wrap around the bar creates a great deal of support for the lower leg in the caudal (rearmost) portion of the hoof.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8008</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/8008-hoof-beats-successful-experiment</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Watchful Eyes</title>
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        <![CDATA[Whether in the shop, barn, field, or even the backyard, it is the horseman’s job to keep the farrier as safe as possible.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/7910</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/7910-hoof-beats-watchful-eyes</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Mitigating Damage</title>
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        <![CDATA[Loss of hoof wall could be the result of several factors including injury, disease, and infection. Often a horse can lose what appears to be massive amounts of wall, but still be sound and moving well. Other times the smallest crack can result in lameness. The important factors are the location and cause of the damage.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/7758</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2015 18:21:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/7758-hoof-beats-mitigating-damage</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: The Big Break-Up</title>
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        <![CDATA[The transition that happens when bringing a horse from the track to the farm often requires more intense farrier care than the average farm resident can provide. Clearly, a farrier working at a farm shoeing yearlings or broodmares will not have the same objectives that he or she does when at the track. At the farm your farrier will generally use larger nails, heavier shoes, and a tighter heel fitting. While this is not necessarily ideal, it is highly practical.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/7575</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/7575-hoof-beats-the-big-break-up</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Cutting Out The Excess</title>
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        <![CDATA[The flip-flop pad is a very useful product. It is great for the lower joints in racehorses, particularly &ldquo;pinchy,&rdquo; or sore knees.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/7322</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/7322-hoof-beats-cutting-out-the-excess</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Working Conditions</title>
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        <![CDATA[These days, fewer and fewer horses reside on the racetrack grounds than there have been in the past. A racetrack would normally have enough stalls to fill the weekly card and accommodate the green (unraced) horses as well. As tracks evolve, this is falling by the wayside.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/6558</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2015 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/6558-hoof-beats-working-conditions</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Glue Addiction</title>
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        <![CDATA[There is no question that we abuse the horse’s hoof in the process of working and training them. That is the primary reason horseshoes were invented. When training gets serious, shoeing frequency increases. This leads to hoof wall abuse in many situations. Add to that lost shoes, tweaks and changes, along with adapting to different race track surfaces, and it can get pretty serious.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5826</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:47:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5826-glue-addiction</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Still Nailing It</title>
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        <![CDATA[A broken P3 (the third phalanx, or coffin bone) can sideline a racehorse for several months.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5588</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5588-hoof-beats-still-nailing-it</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Nailing It</title>
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        <![CDATA[The fit and finish of a nail is something most farriers are very familiar with. Many other horsemen may not realize the ins and outs of choosing the correct nail for a given shoe package.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5528</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5528-hoof-beats-nailing-it</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Extend the Shoe</title>
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        <![CDATA[The racing schedule can start to take a toll on horses in late September as the season matures and she had begun to run down on the right hind.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5422</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5422-hoof-beats-extend-the-shoe</link>
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      <title>Hoof Beats: Vital Signs</title>
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        <![CDATA[When keeping tabs on a horse's wellbeing, it is essential to monitor hooves constantly, especially when the horse is not acting quite right.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5388</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5388-hoof-beats-vital-signs</link>
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