horseshoe: Quick Facts

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A farrier holds a horse's hoof and uses a hammer to nail a metal horseshoe onto it.

Illustration of a horse's hoof with a side view showing internal skeletal bones aligned inside the hoof and a bottom view displaying the horseshoe and the V-shaped frog structure.

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