Abstract: A combination hoof pad and horseshoe which raises the horse's heel and at the same time supports the coffin bone. The pad is wedge-shaped to be higher at the heel and lower at the toe. An insert support is located on the bottom of the pad such that it presses upwardly from the ground line to give support to the center of the coffin bone. The shoe portion of the remedial pad and shoe combination is provided with replaceable high heels thus raising the hoof heel to relax the flexor tendons. Relaxing the flexor tendons reduces pull on the coffin bone.

Abstract: A horseshoe stock piece and various complementary pieces provide variety of custom features for horseshoes such as heel calk trailers, trailer calks, calk horseshoes and patent shoes. The stock piece is a horseshoe structure with conventional top or hoof surface, a bottom or ground surface, inner and outer faces, fullering on the ground side, and nail holes within the fullering. The heel end of each arm of the stock piece has a flat, rectangular recess formed in the ground surface face which is from 40%-60% of the depth or thickness of the shoe stock. A transverse groove is formed in the central portion of the recess. The groove has walls which are perpendicular to the surface of the groove and there is a threaded aperture formed in the base of the groove. The foregoing is dimensioned to receive a complementary piece secured in the recess. The complementary piece has a transverse extension or lug extending into the groove.

Abstract: An improved horseshoe for a thoroughbred horse having a front calk comprising an integral pair of holding members on opposite surface of the horseshoe for the removable securing of a second calk positioned transversely to the longitudinal axis, within the width of the horseshoe and within the forward half of the horseshoe. The turf gripping surface of the second calk is generally positioned closer to the horse's hoof surface than the turf gripping surface of the first calk.

Abstract: A hoof covering for horses comprises a horseshoe-shaped plastic body made integrally of wear-resistant plastic material and having a generally acute-angled cross section. The plastic body has a lower side with a substantially planar tread surface and a planar upper surface which serves as a support for a hoof of a horse, and an upwardly extending side in the form of a side wall capable of being bent into the desired shape for mounting the hoof covering on the hoof by adhesive means. The lower side of the plastic body defines a horseshoe-shaped groove opening into the substantially planar tread surface. A horseshoe-shaped steel yoke is retained in the groove and has a plurality of spaced-apart steel calks which project through the horseshoe-shaped groove and beyond the tread surface of the plastic body. This groove is in the cross-sectional region of its opening slightly narrower than the steel yoke. Screwable connection elements may be provided between the steel yoke and the calks.