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[*] posted on 4-22-2014 at 02:35 PM
Foot Medics, Baja Style






















Father & Son service the athletes,

TJ & south.



Truck has full utilities. Two shops.



Professionals

As you may find

In Del Mar.




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[*] posted on 4-23-2014 at 01:25 PM


love those rigs...
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[*] posted on 4-23-2014 at 05:42 PM


Great rig. Looks like the anvil pivots out the back then supported with a jack stand.



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[*] posted on 4-23-2014 at 07:05 PM


I would think true "Baja Style" would involve a horno and a length of rebar...
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[*] posted on 4-23-2014 at 07:17 PM


Fast, expensive ponies are a pastime of the rich and wanted. They can't go freely in public without chancing arrest, so they create their own diversions. Horse racing on their private sprint tracks is just one.
Those guys in the fotos didn't buy that rig from shoeing plow horses.




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[*] posted on 4-24-2014 at 01:40 PM


Ah, Dennis. Concise. Insightful.

I'm just fortunate.



A non-member of the carriage trade, I get proper fitting shoes with all angles correct for a fraction of the "Bad Boy" price.



Thanks for your response. I'd given the post another terrible name. Was just lookin' to share . . .



Final thought. Nice to go into town without concern of being seen.




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[*] posted on 4-24-2014 at 01:50 PM


My special Paulina . . . "Where are you?"

How's your buddy? How's it going? Is he a gentleman?

My post. Talk to me!




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[*] posted on 4-25-2014 at 08:01 PM


When it comes to horse feet... it doesn't matter how nice of a car you have if the wheels don't work. Your friends seem to have the rig to keep a horse's wheels rolling.

When I daydream about taking my horse Handy south for good, the first thing that pops into my brain is what would I do about keeping his feet up? I have to know that there is a good farrier around who knows how the hoof works. It takes a good eye. I doubt these guys would make house calls to Bahia!

The cost for shoeing for me stateside in California probably runs pretty close to the "bad guy" pricing down there, I would imagine. As I've mentioned before, my horse has always been barefoot until this drought has caused the ground around here to turn to concrete. He now wears shoes on the fronts, trim in the rear. $60. every 7 weeks. Ouch.

He threw a shoe last month, so to have the other pulled cost me too. He did get to wear a fancy set of horse hiking boots on the front till I could get him shod again. I think he actually liked them. He's kind of like that, a show off in the clothing department. Give him a fly mask and he's all Hollywood.



I don't know if I could learn to trim him myself. I do know that my back couldn't handle the work. I don't know how these guys do it.

Thank you for asking how he's doing Jeff. He's doing well. I've had a medical procedure done that has me out of the saddle for the time being, doctor's orders. Fortunately for both of us, there is a trainer at the barn who was happy to have the use of him during the week and he's being used for a walk-trot lesson on Saturdays. He's showing us that he's over thinking he's just yard art and ready to have a job again. He's a cross dresser too, as they are riding him in an English saddle right now.



I would love to have him down there as my 4x4 transportation to and from town. I think he's a handsome guy, but then again, I'm pretty partial.

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[*] posted on 4-25-2014 at 08:11 PM


Totally awesome.



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[*] posted on 4-26-2014 at 04:19 PM


Perfect, 'cept for the no ride rx.

Ride on!




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[*] posted on 4-26-2014 at 04:25 PM


P.S. He's beautiful . . .



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