Re: RC: Darolyn & Barefootin'

[Trailrite@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/17/2001 4:36:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, toltallyice@onewest.net writes:


> On the other hand, maybe some would wonder why you would deprive your horse
> of the ability to feel the rocks and then ask him the run 25 miles over
> them. 


They don't FEEL anything on the hoof wall, and this is where the shoes are placed.  That's why you can nail on a shoe...no feeling.  When people touch something with their fingers, they FEEL with the finger tips, not by their nail tips.
You know back in the older days of people catching wild horses for dog food...They would chase a herd over rocks by airplane until they were so sore and tired that they couldn't run any more.  So even wild horses had problems when the NATURAL ways are altered.  When you add weight and go a steady speed the meaning of Natural is canceled.  I still wonder WHY people want to put horses through this pain and or time.  Just so they can do a 25 miler, or a few 50s?  What is the point here?  Yep! Their has been a few horses that can at certain rides, etc, etc.  But their were a bunch more that do well with shoes on too.  If a horse was stone bruised then this has nothing to do with shoes.  Shoes are placed on the out side wall.  Stone bruising is done at the sole or frog area.  This has nothing to do with if a shoe was on or not.  All it means is that the horse stepped on a rock at the wrong angle, speed & place of the hoof.

Tammy Robinson
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