"When you invest these four simple iron horseshoes and affix them to the hooves of an ordinary horse or a quadrupedal animal companion..."
Great.
Option 1: ordinary horse.
Option 2: animal companion.
Don't have any other sort of mount. No mules, no camels, no bears, no riding dogs, no goblin dogs, no wolves, and certainly no driders.
And no, this can't be circumvented by saying "hey, animal companion isn't capitalized, so it's not a keyword... it just means an animal that is your companion", because per page 82 and the Animal Companion feat, it grants you an "animal companion", lower-case.
Sigh.
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Well... I personally think allowing them to work for non horse companions itself is sillier than the alternative of all animals everywhere can nail metal cuffs to their feet to go faster. Imagine a Bear Companion with these... that's just cruel.
I hear you. I really do.
I just think it's unambitious design. Throw in a sentence indicating that the items come in or morph into forms appropriate for the creature wearing them, from horseshoes to simple twine bangles.
*To be fair, the PF1 version of this does say "animal's hooves", but in PF1 magic items were slotted, and automatically adjusted themselves to fit the slot, regardless of the wearer's physiology, as long as they have the appropriate slot. A halfling could loot a headband off a kaiju and immediately wear it. Because... magic. So the overall design covered this. And... animals other than horses have hooves, so it was already less restrictive.