Lets just say i am lucky i have some very nice people in my area, My neighbor is nice enough to trim dixie's hooves for free! my riding teacher says when she hires someone to trim her horses hooves, it is about 20$ a horse, and she has 11 horses. and yet she has to pay shots for 11 horses.and i am also pretty lucky because Dixie was only 500$, boy oh boy did i get her cheap. But i guess she came and brought along some really bad habits! but thats kinda what u get for what ya pay for! and the people that sold her to me gave me the bridle free!yahooz! so what i am kinda trying to do is learn to trim Dixie's hooves and learning to do that would be a good thing.