Re: RC: Silver State 2001

["Nancy Mitts" <mitts_n@hotmail.com>]

We have a horse on our place that weaves when confined in a small area. AND 
I've seen horses get footsore & shift their weight around. It's not hard to 
tell the difference. (This is a general observation, since I didn't see the 
particular horse in question).

Nancy Mitts



>From: "Lisa LeChatton" <llechatton@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: llechatton@home.com
>To: ridecamp@endurance.net
>Subject: RC:  Silver State 2001
>Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:36:59 -0600
>
>Karen didn't identify the horse that looked lame and looks can be 
>deceiving.
>What if that horse was a "weaver"? The horse would have looked like it was
>lame but it was just weaving in place. Its sad when people post such
>negative information and they don't know the whole story.
>
>Some Arabs do fine barefoot on any terrain because the rider knows how to
>ride over rough terrain and/or the horse is conditioned. Some horses do 
>not.
>Also, a crappy shoeing job is worse than no shoes.
>
>Shoeing is an owner/rider decision specific to the horse. It would really
>suck if someone made it a rule to shoe in a certain manner because of an
>inflated opinion.
>
>Get over it.
>
>Lisa LeChatton
>Garland, Tx
>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Dbeverly4@aol.com
>To: karen@storallnv.com, ridecamp@endurance.net
>Subject: RC:   Silver State 2001
>Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:58:04 EST
>
>In a message dated 11/26/2001 4:36:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>karen@storallnv.com writes:
>
>
> >  The only
> > negative thing that day was the horse people were trying to ride
> > barefoot.  The horse was looked really lame out on the trail, it was so
> > sore that even my junior couldn't believe the rider didn't get off and
>walk
> > it back to camp.  I guess it **barely** passed the vet check with a 
>grade
>2
> > lameness at the end.
>
><FLAME SUIT ON>Wasn't this the same horse who finished in reportedly 
>"great"
>shape after the Sunland ride (see initial forwarded post to Ridecamp)?  IF
>this is the same horse, which has been reported on other lists (but not RC)
>to have finished "sound" (I don't consider grade 2 lame sound) on THIS
>particular ride, you've got to wonder.  The reason I ask is that what we 
>ask
>our horses to do is hard enough -- this barefoot trend just makes me crazy.
>
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