Brushing/Interfering
A wound
that is not
Brushing
healing, the – Injury that occurs when one hoof
result of strikes the inside of the opposite
constant limb. (AAEP)
Abnormal Limb Contact interference
(brushing)
– A general term for light striking
(Equine Practice)
Prepared by Interfering
– Striking of a limb by the
Jovencio H.A. Abalos, DVM, MS contralateral foot as far proximally
Asst. Prof. of Equine Medicine as the metacarpal or metatarsal
Dept. of Vet. Clinical Sciences region. This may result in
lacerations, contusions or fractures
(Equine Practice)
– results from faulty conformation
(body, legs), or the tiring of the
horse and improper shoeing
Knee hitting/Elbow hitting Cross Firing, Overreaching and Forging
Knee hitting Cross firing
– Contact between diagonal pairs of front and
– A high interference involving the carpus seen hind feet
in Standardbred horses – Pacing defect
– Medial aspect of hind foot strikes medial
Elbow hitting aspect of contralateral front limb
– Striking the elbow with the foot of the same Overreaching
– a leg interference in which the hind feet strike
limb the front legs, usually the end of the branches
– Requires marked flexion of the carpal and or the undersurface of the shoe of a fore foot
with a toe of the hind foot
digital joints – May pull front shoe or traumatize foot
– Rarely occurs except in racers and in horses – common fault in horses working in fast tempo
in any of the three gaits
with weighed shoes
Forging
– Front foot is struck on the sole by the
ipsilateral hind foot
– Most often due to sore stifles, and too long
hoof especially in the short-
short-coupled horses
Scalping and Speedy Cut
Scalping
– Hitting the hind foot above or at the line
of the hair (coronet) against the toe of a
breaking over fore foot
– Most often observed in trotters
Speedy cut
– Occurs when a trotter or pacer at speed
hits a hind leg above the scalping mark
against the shoe of a breaking over fore
foot
– In trotters, legs on the same side are
involved
– In pacers, diagonal legs are involved
