More and more foreigners have followed in Vintage Crop's hoof steps — 100 horses in all since 1993.
But the couple are pleased that Mitko wants to follow in their foot- and hoof-steps.
Few tourists venture beyond Petra's main sites, and with every hoof-step away from the city we are more alone – until there isn't a single other person in sight.
Their hooves should step in the center in between each pole.
His focus was almost always on the races or the goings-on before and after: happy snorts, dragging hooves, extra steps.
Her horribly overgrown hooves made every step excruciating, and her legs buckled under the weight of her enormous udders.
In that race, he lost his right front horseshoe at the start when he "grabbed a quarter"—tearing off the shoe and a bit of his hoof when he stepped on the heel of his front foot with one of his back feet.
I saw his knee bending, the hoof lifting: he was stepping into the car's path.
It was no closer than the other, even a bit farther, but worth padding the hoof a few extra steps.
To enforce the Horse Protection Act, enacted to halt the widespread and abusive practice of "soring --where intensoring --whereiberately inflicted on soring --whereegs and hooves to make them step hintensen the Tennessee Walking Horse industry--the federal government invests a measly $500,000.
