No Four Feet Are Alike

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Magazine deadline weeks at The Horse consist of much proofreading, fact checking, and vetting of stories and images–literally. While turning out the May issue, for instance, International Equine Podiatry Center founder Dr. Ric Redden swung by to give his stamp of approval on an illustration we had made of healthy front hooves. But getting Dr. Redden to Okay something is easier said than done. As soon as he sat down to look over our images, he scrambled for a pen and covered our neat print-outs with scribbles and line drawings. At a glance they made little sense, but Dr. Redden’s message was clear: Each hoof is very different from the next; there is no such thing as a “perfect” hoof; and asymmetries and imperfections are quite the norm.

Dr. Ric Redden left me with a hand-drawn hoof anatomy lesson

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Alexandra Beckstett, a native of Houston, Texas, is a lifelong horse owner who has shown successfully on the national hunter/jumper circuit and dabbled in hunter breeding. After graduating from Duke University, she joined Blood-Horse Publications as assistant editor of its book division, Eclipse Press, before joining The Horse. She was the managing editor of The Horse for nearly 14 years and is now editorial director of EquiManagement and My New Horse, sister publications of The Horse.

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