egg bar shoes

[Brookie969@aol.com]

I would like to hear your opinions about egg bar shoes for distance horses.  
Nancy Loving wrote in the Ja./Feb. 1995 issue of Trail Blazer: " egg bars 
increase the surface area for weight distribution as the horse loads the 
limb, ... the larger the surface area that the foot contacts with the ground, 
the better the energy of impact is diffused through the entire foot and on up 
the limb, ... Egg bar shoes give the rear end the needed stability each time 
the horse plants its legs.  The ankles won't twist as readily as they would 
without the support, and the hocks experience less twisting forces with hind 
feet shod with egg-bars."  Sounds like it would be well worth the extra money 
to save a horse.