As far as the coronary band, I believe the idea is that it should be level when viewed from the front (i.e. the hoof walls are trimmed evenly). I really like this article as it has a lot of illustrations that explain the hoof-pastern axis, broken forward and back, etc.

http://animalscience.tamu...uation-horse-shoeing.pdf

ETA:  And this article explains how to roughly judge the angle of the rear feet:

http://www.ker.com/library/equinews/v2n1/v2n110.pdf


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