About Pete Healey

Pete Healey

As a cowboy, Pete Healey learned how to shoe horses in 1979, and by 1988 he’d started his own shoeing business. In 2002 he began a working relationship with Alamo Pintado Equine Medical Center in Los Olivos, CA.

Pete is always learning and researching. This has led to three patented measuring systems which include a mapping system for the coffin bone and an evaluation system for the hoof-pastern axis. His current work includes Equilibrium Radiograph Data™, an Excel program that evaluates soft tissue, bone angle and mechanics of the foot.

Pete, a graduate of Dr. Reddens’ Advanced Equine Podiatry course, holds an APF 1 certificate with the American Association of Professional Farriers. He’s been a contributing author for the American Farriers Journal, and a contributing author for The Cowboy Way and Ranch and Reata magazines between 2013 and 2016 with an article called “Your Horse’s Feet”. Pete has presented several clinics and has lectured at North Carolina State University, Auburn University and the International Hoof Care Summit.

In 2017, Pete and Dr. David Jensen of San Marcos Equine in Los Alamos, CA founded the Equine Podiatry Education Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting research and education of the equine foot. In 2022, Pete coauthored a paper for the American Association of Equine Practitioners with Dr. Mariah Kerr titled “How to Evaluate and Balance the Distal Limb Using Specific Anatomical and Radiographic Parameters”.

Pete lives in Santa Ynez, CA with his wife Karen and son Charlie, where he is the manager of Healey Enterprises LLC, which includes the shoeing business, a stocker cattle and grass finished beef operation and Balanced Break-over Management which sells his measuring systems. Pete is the author of The Island, Reminiscences of twentieth century ranching on Santa Rosa Island. His recent book is Evaluating Radiographs for Equine Foot Management.