Strange things can happen anytime, in any corner of the hoof-care world. Todd Gillis has worked as a farrier for 23 years in the Richfield, Wis., area 30 miles northwest of Milwaukee. He shoes about 325 horses on a regular basis, with more than 85 percent of them located within 20 minutes of his home. And though his work includes therapeutic shoeing for a couple of veterinary clinics, he'd never seen anything that prepared him for a hoof-care case he's now been working on for nearly 2 years — Beamer, the horse with a second hoof growing on its left front leg.
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