Celtic Hooves - Equine Podiatry

02/04/2024

It's refreshing to see what you're working with when the ground has been so wet and muddy. Especially those equine friends whom have plenty of feather!

Summer is rocking her stripey socks! 🧦

Also: who doesn't love an adorable donkey?

Four lovely ponies and three sweet donkeys all trimmed up until next visit. 🥰

12/07/2023

I owe so much to Jayne.

I am lucky to have a career I love. I'm passionate about my work, clients and the horses I work under.

Jayne was a great tutor and incredibly knowledgeable in her field of expertise. I wouldn't be doing what I do today and wouldn't have half the knowledge that I have learned without Jayne and Richard.

We EPs are a tight nit community. Since receiving the call on Sunday afternoon to tell me that Jayne had lost her life in a road accident whilst riding her horse, I'm certain our community will never be the same again. We'll mourn for her, be grateful for everything she had taught/shared with us and feel for her family, friends and loved ones.

She has saved so many horses through her skill, knowledge and through teaching others.

I hope she knew the massive impact she'd made to so many throughout equine world.

Rest peacefully.

Jayne Hunt

The members of the Equine Podiatry Association have been devastated by the sudden passing of our beloved Jayne Hunt in a riding accident on Sunday 9th July.

Jayne has been at the heart of our community since its inception. With her longstanding friend and colleague Richard Vialls, she established the Equine Podiatry training company delivering the Equine Podiatry diploma. In that role she shared her passion, wisdom and warmth with her students. So on Sunday afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our association not only lost our warmest, funniest and most generous member, we also lost our teacher, our mentor and our dear friend. Her favourite answers to our inevitable student questions were ‘it depends’ (to almost any Equine Podiatry question) and ‘it’ll be fine’ (to any set back or problem) and those refrains still echo with us now she’s gone.

We will be forever grateful for her life, and that she had the foresight and bravery to follow her passion for this profession. We’re thankful that she and Richard brought their dream of establishing a professional Equine Podiatry qualification to fruition, when two years ago the Equine Podiatry Training course was accredited by LANTRA as a Level 5 qualification. It is a comfort to us that she achieved this long held ambition before her untimely death.

Living her life as she did, Jayne influenced and changed so many lives for the better: from her clients, we podiatrists, and the horses that bring us all together. We are so thankful for the time we had with her and wish we had had much more, she will be profoundly missed by us all.

28/04/2023

Here's one of my youngest clients. This young man works away very quietly with his pony, gives her the time she needs to process and his liberty comes so naturally.

Here we are discussing sole exfoliation after he noticed the little lines along her soles. He's very switched on and super observant with his equine family. 🤍🥰🐴

27/04/2022

This beautiful big boy is often such a wriggle monkey, but today he was so relaxed. So chill in fact, that he had no intention in moving his leg off the hoof stand. Soaking up the warm weather 🥰♥️