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25/08/2025

When we unearthed Topcat’s bones, I passed them to Lindsay Setchell—founder of Hoofing Marvellous

She studied the P3s and said, “Look, there’s remodelling at the tip of P3. At some point, he must have been up on the tip of P3 at some point .”

I immediately replied, “No way. His feet were so flat and collapsed when he first arrived.”

But then I pulled out my phone to show Lindsay the photos of his feet. The moment I saw the picture, it hit me—I was looking with fresh eyes. Eyes that now understand the hoof capsule and its true shape.

I had to laugh at myself and admit, “Oh! Ignore me, I was wrong.” 🫣🤯

Now I can clearly see the long heels and the hairline sitting more horizontal than it should have been.

The reason I’m sharing this is because I often see comments like, “My horse had rotation but his feet were perfectly balanced.” When I ask for photos, the response is usually, “It was years ago, I don’t have any.”

But here’s the truth: what we remember and what the reality actually was are often two very different things

13/08/2025

The Truth About Laminitis 👉It’s Not the Grass!

We’ve trimmed thousands of feet.
We’ve studied thousands of cadavers.
We’ve looked at thousands of X-rays.

And not once - not once - have we ever seen a laminitis case with torn laminae, rotated P3, or osteonecrosis in a hoof that was perfectly balanced to its internal anatomy.

Horses eat grass everywhere.
Many are stuffed with inappropriate feeds every day.
But the epidemic of laminitis isn’t from diet.

It’s from chronic hoof capsule imbalance - in both barefoot and shod horses.

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Why It Happens…

The trim is the problem. Hoof care professionals chop, carve, and mould the hoof capsule into what they think looks right from the outside - chasing aesthetics, hoof-pastern axis, raising heels, chopping off toes - without realising they’re working against the horse’s internal anatomy.

Owners have been told for decades to look at themselves - blame the diet.

No one told them to understand the hoof. No one taught them how to recognise when the capsule had drifted away from P3’s correct position.

We’re teaching that now - because if you can’t spot imbalance, you can’t stop laminitis.

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Why Drugs Won’t Save the Hoof…

You can fill your laminitis horse with every drug on the planet to control glucose and insulin levels. But it will never - not once - bring P3 back to where it should be or realign the hoof capsule.

• Hoof care took it out of balance.

• Hoof care tore the laminae, rotated P3, and caused bone death.

• Hoof care is the only thing that can put it right again.

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The Uncomfortable Truth…

Laminitis will never end - even with all the gimmicks, the latest shoe or clog, the newest barefoot “method,” or millions spent on research - until we see it for what it is: chronic hoof capsule imbalance.

And for those who absolutely do not want this to be true… it’s so easy to prove.

Go look at the X-rays:

• Raised palmar angles

• Shortened toes

• Penetrated P3s where the sole was thinned and the toe wall reduced

P3 does not sink. It never did.

It cannot rotate or be “pulled” through the capsule by the DDFT.

Only the capsule moving away from its correct internal balance - tearing laminae and locking P3 into a lethal position - causes laminitis.

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When Damage is Done…

If you catch imbalance early, you can rehab the horse back to comfort and soundness by restoring correct hoof capsule alignment.

But once severe osteonecrosis sets in from repeated toe chopping and heel raising, the prognosis becomes guarded.

When bone death is advanced, you will never return that horse to a truly comfortable life.

Humans did that - stop hiding behind the diet.

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What You Can Do Right Now…

You can stop laminitis in your horse - forever - if you:

• Learn what internal balance really is

• Recognise the earliest signs of capsule drift

• Watch what your HCP is taking off, leaving on, and why

• Demand trims that follow the hoof’s internal anatomy, not the latest external fashion

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Our Proof…

Follow us and Gawsworth Track Livery as we share case after case:

• Horses in crippling shoeing packages or barefoot, toes chopped, heels jacked up

• Laminae torn through tension and torque

• Rehabbed back to soundness through balance - proven in X-rays before, during, and after rehab

👉We prove:

• Even with separation, P3 stays stable when the hoof is balanced - defying all known laminitis rhetoric

• Laminitis stops once the hoof is back in balance

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Hoof imbalance is everywhere - barefoot and shod. That’s the epidemic. That’s the suffering.

Until owners learn to see it - and act on it - laminitis will keep taking horses.

Not because of grass. Not because of diet, toxicity, or standing around on one leg for too long…

… Because of us. Because of chronic hoof capsule imbalance.

Fix that - and you will fix laminitis.



HM.

Join our free group The Phoenix Way: Path 2 Hoof Health and learn how to keep your horse’s hooves balanced and free from laminitis.

17/07/2025

It’s always fascinating to see the changes for the better in hoof horn quality when horses switch to track life.

The horizontal line going across the hoof indicated when this mare moved to GTL, the hoof horn below that line is of poorer quality with many splits and chips- notice the crack going up the hoof but not entering into the new stronger growth.

In time all the damage will grow out as we keep her on regular trim cycles

08/07/2025

Long toes are ugly but they are only temporary whilst rehabbing.

These pictures are from today, of a pony that the previous hoof care provider had left the heels high and out of balance and I have now trimmed three times. Every trim you can see the length of the toe is coming back, this is done in a safe way.
The left side before a trim and the right side after the trim.

No horse should be lame after a trim. No horse should be suffering from pedal bone death.

Whoever made this latest hoodie doesn’t understand the ‘long toe’. We do chop it off- safely and without a sore step.
The first x-ray isn’t a true rehab- there’s too much material at the back off the hoof still and no healing angle.
The second x-ray is worse with pedal bone death.

A comfortable horse should be more important than what the hoof looks like.

16/06/2025

When the training is wrong, the job will be wrong!

A drawn diagram to show structural changes from ‘laminitis’ yet they have simply copied and pasted the same diagram. This isn’t what x-rays show on living animals. It’s missing the compaction, the high heels and the effect this has on the coronet band. And leads you to believe the toe must play some sort of negative effect.

Then why is it horses can have separation/long toes and still trot up sound for a vet?

This diagram is wrong.

Published in the recent British Horse Society (BHS) magazine shows P3 just… rotating - the laminae bright red - inflamed... yet BOTH of the hoof capsules are identical.

P3 could not move whatsoever in this hoof capsule.

P3 doesn't go anywhere until the heels are raised and the toe is removed.

Yet you will find these diagrams depicting P3 rotation in identical hoof capsules, in every textbook, magazine feature, Google, and vet school curriculum.

P3 rotation is supposedly the stuff of metabolic chaos - everyone blames the fat horse. The sugary grass. The supporting limb. The hormones all out of balance.

99.9% of horse lameness is caused by (usually years of) incorrect hoof care - and NO-ONE seems to realise. But it is an amazing money-spinner.

This is parallel universe territory. It's totally bizarre.

The hoof keeps growing - it keeps being manipulated by humans - trimming distorts balance... and everyone looks the other way and blames everything else.

- P3 rotation

- Negative or hyper-positive palmar angles

- Navicular changes

- Sidebone

- Arthritis (ringbone)

These problems are not metabolic. They are man-made.

Yet the world still fumbles for answers in IR, PPID, EMS, sepsis, supporting limb laminitis... anything to avoid the glaring truth literally staring them in their faces...

>>the hoof care is the variable that keeps changing.

Your hoof care pro - your vet - and YOU - can't spot a hoof capsule that is becoming distorted.

The hoof keeps growing folks, and therefore the foot keeps needing a trim, and the trimming never stays consistent.

The result? Horses that are lame, labelled, medicated, and very often euthanised because those diagnosing have no clue what a healthy foot looks like.

Because they were taught with diagrams like this one!

Vets consistently misinterpret the hoof capsule.

Ask YOUR VET how many cadavers they trimmed before they put a horse down for P3 rotation for the first time. You might go 'WTF' at the answer.

These diagrams are making horse owners scared. And the articles that go with them, full of outdated information.

Trouble is the world still doesn't see this as outdated information (yet) - they still see it as current. And that costs horses their lives.

These diagrams are wrong and are scary.

You know what you should be scared of... a world that thinks distorted hoof capsules are healthy and normal.

A world that cannot spot imbalance.

Now that, my friends, you should be terrified of. Really terrified.



HM.

If you think these diagrams are correct, then you seriously need to join The Phoenix Way: Path 2 Hoof Health and find out how wrong they are.

31/05/2025

Today marks 1 year of taking on clients and I want to thank everyone who has trusted me with their horses and ponies!

And thank you Hoofing Marvellous for helping me to realise, that by doing this I can prevent other horses and ponies from going through what my own had too. You were the first to ever tell me, “to go and listen to my horses” and that’s what started this journey and saved us 💕

13/05/2025

It is heartbreaking hearing and reading people’s personal journey but the equine world needs to hear the let downs.
Most of us start learning because of a broken horse but they teach us the right way, if they are still here or not.
Knowledge is power- don’t let the past repeat itself.

- Campaign

The campaign to expose the greatest cover-up in equine welfare - a silent epidemic of suffering, misdiagnosis, and death blamed on “laminitis,” when it was catastrophic hoof care failure all along.

It’s time to speak up. Just like this owner…

“I had a 3 year old highland filly that was crippled with laminitis. Hoof resections carried out, dosed to the eyeballs on bute and other painkillers. I fought for 6 months for my best friend in the whole world. Stuck in a box until Christmas Day. She gave me such a look of pain, lay down and the vet ended her life. I later found out it was my blacksmith at fault. Didn’t mend my broken heart. Her name was Iona.”

This is Iona’s story. She mustn’t die in vain.

She’s not the only one.
There are millions of horses and devastated owners, just like Iona’s.

Told it was laminitis. Told it was hopeless.
Told it was just one of those things.
But we know better now.
It wasn’t a disease. It was a monumental cover-up.

Ignorance isn’t a defence. Horses are suffering and dying. It has to stop. Now.

Raise awareness. Stand up for your horse, pony, mule or donkey.

Say their name. Don’t let them be lost, just another failure. Tell their story.



We’re done staying silent.
We’re done watching horses suffer - and die - because of misguided hoof care and misinformed professionals.

We’re launching a movement.

If you’ve lost a horse…
If you’ve been told it was laminitis…
If you’ve found out too late that they were failed by hoof care…
If this is happening to your horse now…
It’s time to speak out.

Join us. Say their name. Share their story.

Let the world hear what really happened.

Use the hashtag:



We stand beside you.

HM.

07/05/2025

And the sad truth, is that this isn’t a one off case. There are many horses like Pluto.
We already know the outcome/prognosis for Pluto and it is amazing to see every time (thank you GTL)
Yet there are still professionals unwilling to learn and relying on training that has proven itself, time and time again, that it does not work!

06/05/2025

Amazing work yet again 🙌🏼
Hopefully this will get vets, farriers and other barefoot trimmers questioning their training and proving how detrimental high heels are to the horse.
P3 safely realigned in one trim.
He will have an ugly hoof to grow out but it will not last forever and he will be comfortable.
A horse being comfortable is more important than a normal looking hoof during rehab!

06/05/2025

Pluto is going to help change horse’s lives with his story.
6 months of traditional ‘treatment’ for what the professionals thought was probably laminitis in his case, yet he’s been suffering from incorrect hoof care causing P3 to be in the incorrect place for all of this time.
So many people out there are focused on the front of the hoof- the toe. And are completely missing the back of the hoof- the heels.

01/05/2025

This week I have been continuing my training with Hoofing Marvellous in beautiful Cornwall. Learning and improving different skills- you never stop learning!