G'day Dizzy,
We've just recently had a young fella come out and do all our yearlings and he does an excellent job, he's the apprentice of a good mate of a mate of my fathers & I think he was born to it, he's a natural. I couldn't shoe a rocking horse myself but their feet now look exactly like they should look, not just a half arsed rasp & a bit of a clip here & there. Afterwards I reckon you can tell pretty much straight away by the way that they stand, when their posture is such that they look more like they're growing out of the ground instead of just standing upon it...then for mine that's well balanced. I've seen a few ungeared but race shod pics of some of the top North American horses and that's something that has always struck me about them. They look so well balanced. Up there they seem to pay so much more attention to their feet than we generally do down here.