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[RC] natural balance shoes - DoubledalHope I'm not opening a can of worms with this one...I am looking for some feedback about natural balance shoes. I am working for a dressage trainer right now whose horses are shod in these, and has since had a lot of soundness problems that look familiar to me. In the past I've seen endurance horses with natural balance shoes exhibit this pattern: horse looks great for several weeks, moving well using his hind end, etc., then begins to have sore feet, suspensories, and hocks (presumably from compensating for front end soreness). My memory sucks and I can't recall all the details, since the endurance horses were not mine. From what I remember, they were getting a lot of concussion to the coffin bone because of the shoe being set so far back, and changing the breakover point was causing the sore suspensories. This trainer that I'm working for now seems to think all this lameness will pass, that the horse is having to adjust to the new method of shoeing, but it's been a couple of months. Can someone explain to me the details of how these shoes are supposed to work, or the reason they don't work? I'd love to be able to provide this trainer with some info, and satisfy my own curiosity! :) Thanks, Karen
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