Wild Ridge Stables

Wild Ridge Stables Boarding, training, conditioning and coaching. Here at Wild Ridge Stables we strive to provide the highest quality care for your equine friend.

Having completed my first year AHT and with more than 30 years experience with horses, you can be assured that your horses are getting the best in equine care. Horses are fed only top quality hay and mineral, and they have continuous access to fresh water and shelter. We have access to highly skilled veterinarians, and an extremely skilled farrier, to ensure that your equine friend has access to t

op notch care. You can choose to have your horse put on our regular vaccination,deworming and trimming schedule, or you can continue with your own, and if you choose, use your chosen vet and trimmer/farrier. We also offer beginner to intermediate riding lessons. Bring your horse here, or I can travel to you and your horse. Training and conditioning are also offered. Please contact for more information.

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05/04/2025

This is a great visual to understand what is meant by bony column alignment the term I use as this is how I was educated.

In the picture it’s called hoof pastern alignment.

I assume it’s the same thing…

So the historic and current thinking is that those 3 bones at the bottom of the horses leg, are the most biomechanically efficient and all the tendons are in balance if those bones are aligned.

It’s all related to levers and moments. The way I understand it is if you think about carrying shopping bags, if they are close to your body they are easier to manage. If you stretch out your arm a bit then the weight of that bag will be harder to manage plus the muscles are worked more. Stretching out your arm is acting like a lever.

The 3 photos show nicely the different ways those 3 bones can present.
Farriers and trimmers will be striving to maintain or get to bony column alignment. By removing hoof or adding to it, adding by shoes, wedges, casts, acrylics, etc.

Note that to look at the bony column line, the cannon bone must be vertical.

I can’t give credit to this person that owns this photo but I am grateful to them and if anyone knows the owner, please let me know so i
can give credit.

Added to give credit to the canadian horse magazine

Image used for fair use- educational and critique

Lindsey

http://www.patreon.com/hoofstudies

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Here at Wild Ridge Stables we strive to provide the highest quality care for your equine friend. Having completed my first year AHT and with more than 30 years experience with horses, you can be assured that your horses are getting the best in equine care. Horses are fed only top quality hay and mineral, and they have continuous access to fresh water and shelter. We have access to highly skilled veterinarians, and an extremely skilled farrier, to ensure that your equine friend has access to top notch care. You can choose to have your horse put on our regular vaccination, deworming and trimming schedule, or you can continue with your own, and if you choose, use your chosen vet and trimmer/farrier. We also offer beginner to intermediate riding lessons. Bring your horse here, or I can travel to you and your horse. Training and conditioning are also offered. Please contact for more information.