Diane Kenny's voice is probably the first contact you will have when you call The Hoof Redevelopment Center. She and Martin first met in 1969 when her future husband worked on her family's appaloosa farm in NE Ohio. After not knowing what happened to that "tall skinny kid" for 33 years, she located him on the internet and they finally married in 2004. She looks back and with a laugh says, "After leaving home, I always said I'd never be around the horse scene again. Well, never say never, after marrying my childhood sweetheart, I am in the thick of it! A lot has changed in the horse industry since those days long ago. I never dreamed that horse's feet could give them so much trouble. But living with Martin, I have come to understand just how important good foot care is. My husband lives and breaths horses feet and their problems. It's great to be a part of the wonderful things that are going on here." While she awaits phone calls from people concerned with their horses; Diane loves working around their 24 acre farm, tending flower gardens and spoiling her cats.

Carlene C. Myers was born and raised in Oregon where she began her love affair with horses at age 5, with her first horse CHARM.She has traveled extensively sharing her knowledge and talents, her primary passion and focus is on the quarter horse and western disciplines.She moved her talents to Guam, Puerto Rico, where she established Guam's first Equine 4-H club with 70 members. There were no vets or farriers on the island so she became proficient with hoof trimming and health management and continued her training of horses. She later moved to Georgia where she began green breaking young horses, teaching students and instructing at riding camps. She became involved in other breeds and disciplines, working with Arabs, Hunters, and then was approached by a financial backer; who made it possible to her to buy, train, and sell horses. During that time, she became a barefoot trimmer and managed various large stables. In 1982, she married Doctor Myers and began a partnership venture where they trained, vetted and bred their personal stock of quarter horses and ran a breeding and foaling facility for clientele. They later combined their veterinary practice with breeding and training and eventually expanded into their current mobile practice as Carlene moved into a more administrative position lending her expertise to running a highly efficient practice.

Sylvia Kornherr was first introduced to balanced hoof care in 2000 consulting with Dr. Myers on unsoundness’s in her own horses. This sparked an interest in hoof care, so she then completed The Equine Digit 6500 hours certification program under Dr. Myers as an Equine Podiatry Technologist and is a pioneer in Equine Digit, Hoof Balance Consulting, lecturing and teaching in Canada and the USA.  Her passion is fueled out of a desire to share knowledge that is key to the vitality and spirit of the horse.  Sylvia Nemeth Kornherr continues her ongoing studies of hoof balance and bio-mechanics of the equine digit under the mentor-ship of Dr. M.W.Myers vet/farrier and Carlene C. Myers who provide consults worldwide on difficult pathological hoof cases out of their Virginia, USA veterinary practice as well as Washington D.C. and North Carolina. She has continued to accumulate on-going education credits and has completed Dr. Ric Redden's 2009 and 2010 In-Depth Equine Podiatry Symposium in Versailles, Kentucky, as well as studying hoof mechanics tested under load and dissection in Vermont with Mitch Taylor/Kentucky Horse Shoeing School, and completed Pete Ramey's Barefoot Trimming - Under the Horse accreditation, recognized by the AFA.  In May 2007 she introduced Dr. Myers to the Ottawa Valley where he mentored a large number of local Canadian vets, farriers, trimmers, alternate care equine providers, horse owners and nutritionists, sharing his expertise on understanding and applying the principals of balancing the equine digit. Through their combined efforts they now have the availability to offer services to their community a team with local vets, farriers, trimmers and horse owners to better evaluate hoof health and provide farrier and trimmer prescriptions.  Sylvia guest speaks on hoof balance, has guest lectured in affiliation with the college for veterinary technicians and has written hoof balance articles for the OADG, The Polo Post and writes quarterly reviews for Cinch-Up. Sylvia Kornherr also sits on the Body of Knowledge Committee for the North American Guild of Professional Farriers. She teaches basic horse owner barefoot maintenance between trims and mentors farriers in Canada and the US. She works with farriers to provide support and assist particularly in laminitic, long toe/under-run heel cases, forward migrated capsules, low palmar angles, and various specialty shoeing and packages for therapeutic application. She is the Canadian local hoof balance agent-liaison between vet, farrier and horse-owner as well as liaison for specialty referrals to Dr. Myers for difficult hoof pathologies for both local and long distance consulting.

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