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Re: [RC] [RC] Archive Use (boots, etc.) - heidi

"Come ride with me and I will prove it. IMHO, saying you can run your
horse over ANY terrain in 50 mile or greater Endurance rides barefoot is
stupid. Ain't gonna happen..."

It already is happening.
Because riding barefoot does not mean "bare foot" anymore. It means hoof
 protection other than stuff nailed to the hoof. And new boots are
coming  onto the market that make it easier and more reliable than ever.

No, Terry, "bare" means "bare."  A booted foot is not bare.  If you mean
to tell me that you ride in Old Macs or EasyBoots, or whatever, then
that's what you need to say.

It is your perogative to not use steel shoes.  But Jim is correct that
there IS terrain that requires hoof protection, and I gather that you
don't disagree with that.  But there ARE people out there who are riding
with NO hoof protection, and Jonni is right--we sure don't hear much about
them when they fail.  I sure wish a couple of the ride vets who have to
deal with a lot of these horses at rides were on here--some of the failure
stories they have to tell are chilling.

Meanwhile, Jonni is right--maybe everybody with a sound, healthy-footed
steel-shod horse ought to pipe up and crow about it.  Except then I don't
think I'd have room on my server to handle the mail volume.  Again, it is
your perogative to choose another form of hoof protection.  But it gets
pretty tiresome to hear over and over from a few folks about the evils of
shoeing, when the thing that is evil is BAD shoeing.  There is as much
difference between bad shoeing and good shoeing as there is between
surgery as practiced on the Civil War battlefield by minimally educated
general practitioners vs in a modern up-to-date surgical center by
board-certified specialists.  Shoeing is still the easiest, safest, and
most effective way to protect the feet of the majority of horses, when
they are subjected to more wear than what their hoof growth can keep up
with.

And on REAL extremes of terrain, give me EasyBoots OVER shoes any
day--beats heck out of pads...

Heidi



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