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 Horse Club Foot Corrective Shoeing A club foot or flexural deformity may affect a horse at any stage of life from neonate through adulthood If shod, plastic shoes included, the poor horse is cast with no hope of growing a good foot Equilox bob smith, the head instructor of the pacific coast horseshoeing school, discusses the grades of clubA club foot is a DEFORMITY and for any horse to win at top level competition it needs every possible advantage and no drawbacks The only way to stop continuing problems with club footed horses is not to breed from them After 11 months of gestation, it is a costly and heart breaking exercise if it results in a club footed foal If you do have a club footed foal then do the right thingA horse with club foot has one hoof that grows more upright than the other The "up" foot is accompanied by a broken forward pastern, that is, the hoof is steeper than the pastern (Photo 1) In a normal foot, the hoof capsule and the pastern align Radiographs will