Wonder if it was possible with the surface the horse was on maybe it was the heat build-up from friction that literally cooked the hooves. (Believe Jaye may have more information about treadmill studies that were done a while back where hooves were literally cooked from the heat generated from the friction). If you take a cadaver hoof and try to pry the hoof wall away from the coffin bone it is very difficult. Place the hoof in a pot of boiling water for a minute or two and they easily pop off.
I never have heard of this. I would love to read that study. I would have attributed it more to prolonged concussion without proper padding than heat and friction. Do you know the link to the study you were talking about
Jaye can probably give you more information, but the study was not about how to cook hooves on live horses-the study was about exercise physiology done by one of Jaye's friends, Tom Ivers. One of the consequences/observations during the study was the over-heated hooves. If I recall, Ivers had a yahoo chat group called Horsescience where he talked about it.
I was asked to fix a sprung shoe on a pacer, just after he finished his "work out" on a treadmill and I burned my hand on the shoe when I picked it up to look at at. There is an amazing amount of friction going on.
Yes Denise, We, Ivers and I did some FKED stuff. Had a 75% result of "good enough to go back to work". i recall a study of plastic shoes and 'heat'. IMO, READING THE STUDY YEARS AGO, AND RECALL; horses land and slide laterad at impact phase of stride, thus one has to watch a pony go.....
