15/08/2026
IMPORTANT STATEMENT FROM HOOF MASTERY
Clive recently saw one of Hoof Masteryās trimming videos posted on the Gawsworth Track Livery page and presented as an example of good trimming. We can no longer see this, so it may well have been deleted.
*EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: When we say that Clive saw one of our videos posted to the Gawsworth Track Livery page, we mean that it was posted by a third party in the comments section of their page. We can no longer see this Somme t so assume that it has been deleted by the original poster. We have never stated or suggested that Gawsworth Track Livery themselves posted, shared or used our video.*
As a matter of policy, Hoof Mastery does not use its platform to criticise other hoof-care professionals, organisations or businesses. We prefer to concentrate on our own work, explain the reasoning behind it and allow people to make their own informed decisions.
However, when our own material appears in a context which could imply an association with, or endorsement of, methods and practices about which we have such serious concerns, remaining silent is not an option. We therefore feel it necessary to make our position absolutely and unequivocally clear.
Hoof Mastery has NO association whatsoever with Gawsworth Track Livery or Hoofing Marvellous.
More importantly, this is not simply a case of two organisations following different approaches.
Hoof Mastery wholeheartedly disapproves of the trimming methods and practices promoted and taught by Hoofing Marvellous. We have serious and fundamental concerns about that approach.
Cliveās trimming bears NO relation to the trimming method taught or promoted by Hoofing Marvellous.
Cliveās work is based upon decades of professional farriery experience, continued education, assessment of the individual horse and foot, and collaboration with veterinary and other equine professionals where appropriate. His videos demonstrate his methods, his reasoning and his professional practice. They must not be taken out of that context or used in a way that associates them with a trimming philosophy that he does not practise, teach, recommend or endorse.
We therefore find the appearance of a Hoof Mastery trimming video on the page of an organisation associated with Hoofing Marvellous particularly concerning. Whatever the intention behind posting it, its appearance in that context risks creating a completely false impression that there is some commonality between Cliveās work and the methods they promote.
There is not.
For the avoidance of absolutely any doubt:
* Hoof Mastery does not endorse, support or sanction the methods or practices of Gawsworth Track Livery or Hoofing Marvellous.*
*Clive does not practise or teach the Hoofing Marvellous trimming method.*
*We do not consent to our educational material being used to promote, validate or lend credibility to their methods, teaching, services or business activities.*
Nor do we accept our material being presented in any context which could lead horse owners or equine professionals to believe that Hoof Mastery considers the approach of Gawsworth Track Livery and / or Hoofing Marvellous compatible with our own.
*We do not.*
Hoof Mastery stands behind the work we publish and the science on which that work is based. We will not allow Cliveās professional reputation or our educational material to be appropriated in a way that blurs what is, in reality, a very clear and fundamental divide between our approach to hoof care and theirs.
There should be no ambiguity whatsoever:
**They do not represent Hoof Mastery.**
**They do not teach Cliveās methods.**
**Their trimming methodology is not Cliveās methodology.**
**And Hoof Mastery emphatically does not endorse it.**
