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Trakehners, I don't have to tell you, are amazing: agile, athletic, clever, beautiful, stunning, graceful, persuasive....all those things and more....


....but what they also do that no other breed seems to be able to match in sheer cunning, is get their shoes off.

Thank goodness there's something you can do with the recovered shoes, see previous December Yuletide blogs.

Here, once Steve has pulled up in his van, Tom positions himself in the yard, exactly where Steve shoes him, without any encouragement or persuasion  (I haven't put him here), and waits.  Tom knows exactly what to do, he is a clever boy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Steve tells us that in all his many years as a farrier, shoeing everything from Shetlands to Shires, he has never known a pair who get their shoes off as Tom & Henry do!

 

 

Their white feet are the culprits every time.  This could of course be a coincidence but the evidence to the contrary here at WW is convincing otherwise.

 

The shoes, once Steve has them on his anvil, are always twisted, and it's this he can't fathom.  Tom and Henry are only shod on the front, so they can't be overreaching to get them off, so how do they do it?  answer: they're Trakehners and very, very clever.

 

This is Tom having his shoe put back on.

 

 



...all very neat, Tom is immediately happier.