Wait, flush with the shoe? That's how a lot of farriers do it around here. Are we sure the soreness was from the trim and not something else, like the ground being hard that week or the horse having a low-grade infection? Sometimes clients notice a coincidence and blame the most recent thing. Not saying you're wrong, but a horse's foot is tough. A slight trim difference seems like a small thing to cause constant soreness.

My old Celestron 8SE used to give me the same blurry Jupiter shots. I started shooting 90 second videos at 60 frames per second, then stacking the best 10% in Autostakkert. The real game changer was using Registax for wavelets after stacking, just gentle tweaks on the first two sliders. It pulls out details you never saw in the single frames.

Aluminum pots for tomato sauce is a new level of kitchen bravery.