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Helping shut down or nervy horses find healing through true connection and relaxation with their owners. Hi i'm Raven Seager!
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Lifelong horsewoman and happy owner of our small herd of 3 horses, Shylee our Irish cob, Drago our cheeky Shetland pony and Percival (aka Percy) our huge Percheron. Every cloud has a silver lining, even for horses! My path in life, is to help you solve your problems with your horses, my heart going out especially to working with shut down horses. Those whom have been through the mill and have lost

the joy of movement. Together we will bring your horse back to life, through ways of connection, mindfulness and trust.

09/01/2026

Absolutely stunning!
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30/09/2025

The Leverage Theory: sounds nice in textbooks, but totally wrong in real life

They say 👉 “A long toe tears the laminae apart through leverage.”

Well, apparently, nobody told this long toe it was meant to tear laminae 🙄

We’ve all heard this line repeated like gospel - but when you look at real hooves, it doesn’t hold up.

At a recent workshop, we trimmed a hoof that was extremely overgrown - high-heeled with a very overgrown toe.

To demonstrate the difference, we did a half-and-half trim: one side left untouched, the other trimmed back.

👉 Here’s what you can see in the photos:

🤔 The toe was far longer than nature intended.

🤔 The foot was indeed overdue for a trim and had lost surface area.

BUT the white line? Still tight. No major stretch. No tearing.

Why? Because despite being overgrown, this hoof had remained balanced. The internal capsule wasn’t under abnormal tension, so the laminae weren’t being ripped apart.

👉 This flies in the face of the leverage myth. If a long toe alone were enough to tear laminae, this foot should have shown major damage - but it didn’t.

This toe was long in the vertical plane, but so too were the heels. Hoof growth rates had remained fairly even.

The real issue isn’t length in isolation. It’s imbalance and distortion within the capsule.

When a hoof grows or is trimmed out of harmony with its constants, tension builds and separation follows.

But when overgrowth happens in relative balance, the hoof can stay remarkably intact - albeit not ideal with a shortened surface area.

So next time someone says “long toe = laminar tearing,” remember this hoof. It’s not about the lever, it’s about the balance.

Balance beats mythical leverage >> every - single - time

HM.

Join our free rehab group and learn what real balance is about (and forget lever forces!) - The Phoenix Way: Path 2 Hoof Health

13/09/2025

9 heels. 9 horses. 8 different human ideas of heel height.

Only 1 heel is natural. Chosen by the horse.

The rest? Human choice.

And every one of these horses - except the natural one - had separated laminae, was in dreadful pain, was suffering, and...
.. diagnosed with... you guessed it... “LAMINITIS”

But it wasn’t diet was it?

It was the trimming. Personal Preference Trimming (PPT) to be precise.

If only horses could talk, eh?

HM.

02/08/2025

Hopefully Shylee will have a foal next summer!

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