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RE: [RC] Shoe-pulling horse/Trailers - Snodgrass, BonnieI had
short trailers put on my short backed mare because of the forging problem and
the first time I did canter work out on the trails she ended up very sore in her
hindquarters. I pulled those shoes right off. Never again! She is currently in
Natural balance shoes on the front and St Croix eventers set back off the toes
behind. Still not perfect but she never pulls a shoe, just hits the bottom of
the front feet, clash, bang boom!
Bonnie
Snodgrass
Trailers on rear shoes with endurance horses surely do change the manner in which the horse unloads and moves his feet. Unfortunately, it also changes the dynamics of how the rear leg responds to that change...and it will show up in the hock, the stifle or lower back. I would recommend not using trailers or on rear shoes. --Frank
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