Thoughts On Medial-Lateral Balance: Colorado farrier Jim Quick shares food for thought on trimming and shoeing for a balanced foot

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If you go to a Jim Quick clinic expecting him to dictate how you should shoe a horse, you're at the wrong clinic. Instead, the Niwot, Colo., farrier says his purpose is to not give instructions to tell other farriers how to shoe, but to share his thoughts on how he does the job. Quick did just that at Bruce Daniels Memorial Clinic in early April when he suggested points of consideration regarding medial-lateral balance."There's more than one way to skin a cat," he says. "There's always more than one way to approach any horse's problem.""Farriers are taught to balance feet, to balance shoes. We try to build that balance in shoes early on as practice. But later on as you get out into the field, there's going to be feet that this shoe just won't go on," Quick says. "My consideration is that there are feet that the shoe shouldn't go on. There are things to consider when we assess each horse."