Have you ever arrived at the barn only to find that your horse is sore on his feet? The day our story starts, I arrived to feed and get horses out to the track. She was notorious in the barn for being flat footed, easily bruised, always carried heat and pulse, and was unendingly sore. Blossom hadn't made it to the winner's circle for almost a year and the owners were getting anxious. She had been
getting the usual special shoeing and foot treatments for the bruising and soreness but it just wasn't getting the job done. One day, after training was done and lunch was fed, I was going down the line of stalls doing up legs and picking feet. A lightbulb went off in my head to try a different mixture for her foot packing and see what happens. I ran around the barn collecting my ingredients and mixed it in an old MSM bucket I found in the feed room. I grabbed a scrap roll of vet wrap and some duct tape, packed her feet and hoped. When I came in that afternoon to feed dinner, I layed my hand on both hooves and checked for pulse in both pasterns. It seemed like both had been reduced since that morning but I passed it off as my imagination. The next morning was a different story. I immediately ran to her stall after breakfast had been given and stripped the vet wrap and duct tape from her feet. They were ice cold and had no pulse. WOW! Really? Blossom was due to run in 3 days. She lived in my new mixture for those precious 72 hours before shipping to Tampa. She maintained cold feet and stayed sound. Out of habit, I turned on her race during the post parade and noticed she was 99-1...not particularly surprised. Blossom broke from the gate and WOWed us all when she crossed that finish line first! This was the beginning of Hoof-Ease as we know it now. I decided to keep mixing and testing on every hoof ailment I could come across, from bruising to wall separations, abcesses, white line disease and laminitis. I even received word from a trainer, the very next summer, at Colonial Downs in Virginia that it gets rid of Dew Poisoning! Imagine that. That winter, the trainer who let us field test in her barn, had more wins then she had in so many years. She had continuously fought with foot problems but to no avail. We, here at Equistributors, Inc. now firmly believe in the old, wise saying "No foot, No horse" and we want to help you.
