255. Spice gets thumbs up from Farrier

This week i had the farrier come out to see Spice because i was concerned that due to increasing her work load to 3 hacks a week she may need to have shoes on her front hooves. However, the farrier said that her hooves were in good shape and that unless i intended on riding her on the roads everyday she should be able to cope just fine. It was reassuring to hear these words come from a farriers mouth as normally one might assume that a farrier would be biased but this particular farrier was very neutral on his stand point which was refreshing. When i asked him how many horses he saw that he thought could go barefoot but didn't he said 30-40% - quite a shocking amount in my view. I am not against the usage of shoes but it would be nice to think that owners were only using them because they were necessary...