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I owe it to ... Plastic front shoes

When Valanti was seven he became pottery and lame on the turn. Rider Sam Dean’s vet, Carsten Skov, explained: “X-rays showed that Vinnie had an imbalance in his front feet which caused distortion of the pedal bone and coffin joint pain.” Sam continued: “Despite medication, Vinnie continued to be intermittently lame. I tried to retire him but as he refuses to live quietly in his field, I have ended up riding him whenever he’s sound.

“My farrier Robin May trims Vinnie’s feet to correct the imbalance and has tried various kinds of shoes. None of them solved our problems. My trainer Nicky Barrett referred me to British team farrier Haydn Price. At his suggestion, Robin tried the glue-on Imprint plastic shoes.

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I check Vinnie’s front feet every day. They feel fairly warm when he’s sound, but I’ve noticed that whenever he’s going to go lame, his feet and pasterns go cold. With Imprint shoes, which apply pressure to the frog and aid blood circulation, his feet stay warm.”

Sam Dean’s Valanti had been intermittently lame for 8 years. After being shod with Imprint Sport, he achieved his best ever elementary score, 71.56% in the qualifier at Oldencraig, Surrey on 29 November 2009.

Sam Dean

Reproduced courtesy Horse & Hound magazine 10 December 2009

Mikey really comfortable on Sport shoes

Mikey is a 9 year old thoroughbred, ex-racehorse, very typical and quite difficult thoroughbred feet, has had a history of things going wrong because of nail-on shoes either making him lame when he is first shod or falling off at inopportune moments. For example, last summer, he pulled a front shoe off, trod on the toe-clip and fractured his pedal bone. He got fit again after that but continued to have problems of that sort this summer.

I brought him for Imprint shoes and not only is he not lame after being shod, which is brilliant, but also he is moving much better. Normally at intermediate eventing tests he gets 38 or 39 and last time out he got 29, really because he was moving so much more freely. He has done that intermediate class and he did the 2 star at Gatcombe last weekend. Both times he’s gone clear, jumping and been really comfortable on them and they have stayed on, importantly! So, very happy.

Shod with Imprint Sport shoes with studholes - 5” fronts and 4 3/4" x 5¼” hinds.

Ingrid Peck

Gloucestershire

23 September 2009

My horse Uranium is moving better than ever, and competing successfully in Dressage competitions, since having Imprint Sport shoes fitted, following a traumatic bout of laminitis.

I can’t thank Andrew Poynton and Imprint shoes enough.

Sandra Biddlecombe

Newent, Gloucestershire

When I got Finn, he had the worst feet in the world, since we’ve had these shoes on he is a completely different animal. His way of going is so much better; he is really sure-footed out hacking, he’s really happy to canter at any different pace. His general demeanour is so much happier. His paces are better. He’s actually got some elevation in his trot and so despite the expense, I’m carrying on because it is worth it.

Shod with Imprint Sport shoes - 5 ¾” Fronts 5¼” x 5 ¾” Hinds

Mia Woodford

Gloucestershire

Owner Carol Myson describes the significant benefits of the Imprint Sport shoe experienced by her event horse Tambo, in early 2011. When it became difficult to fit conventional shoes due to a very broken foot, Carol was keen to find a solution and decided to try the Imprint Sport: “Not only did Imprint enable the foot to regrow but he went so well in the shoes that we kept using them.... We found that not only did he perform beautifully in Imprint shoes but we found them fantastic on slippery hill roads for hacking.”

Carol is delighted with the results and Tambo is comfortable, competing and doing well.

Tambo competing in Imprint Sport shoes.