Horseshoe

This horseshoe, for the hind hoof, is for a hunting horse and is therefore designed to cope with travelling quickly over soft ground. This shoe has a three-quarter ‘feather edge’ and is intended to prevent ‘brushing’ – when the horse strikes the inside of one leg with another. It has six nail holes. The shoe was supplied by, and probably made by, a Mr Thomas, of Metcombe, Dorset, circa 1945–6. It …