Discipline, individual hoof issues (genetic, injury) footing he’s working on, shouldn’t be a big deal to a competent farrier. Discipline is mostly irrelevant, unless you need to be skilled at applying sliders (and I won’t get into the issue of stacks in the gaited world 
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thin soles, flat feet, shelly walls, tendency to run forward in LTLH growth, those are Horses. That should be covered in school. They’re not unique situations at all. If those things stump a farrier, he’s not competent.
I wanted to close the thread, but I feel I must answer the last comment. Discipline is NOT mostly irrelevant and what makes a competent farrier shouldn’t be completely subjective.
Being schooled about the nature of horses is irrelevant to this discussion. When a “competent” farrier takes too much hoof and the horse has thin shelly walls, flat feet, thin soles, and no caudal support with underrun heels -THAT IS relevant. The if, then …. also known as the Socratic method.
No one should have to accept farrier work that passes for competent when it is not thought through, problems are not addressed, and the owner and the horse have to suffer the consequences.
Can you explain your thoughts on why discipline matters when it comes to trimming?
How does trimming differ whether a horse is doing HUS or Dressage or Hunters or Endurance or Eventing or Cutting or Barrel Racing or “just” trail right? How do those things change how a foot should be balanced to that leg on that horse?
Well, that’s not a competent farrier. But my point was, those are typical things that any competent farrier knows how to fix, or at least help manage (which may involve some owner management practices as well).
I never said otherwise.
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