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Hey Angie....I have a nearly new pair...used two times....Need some more ???  Yep, like you, they rubbed my horse and I hate them.

 

Jody and the girls (Rose....she really hated the boots)

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> In the late 1980s, a study conducted by William 
> > Crawford, DVM, at the > University of Madison-Wisconsin, devised an 
> experiment to measure > the > shock-absorbing capacity of the company's
> Sports Medicine Boots. 
>
> Ahh, but did he measure the effects on a horse's body when he changes his
> gait because built up sand is rubbing his hide under the boot? What about
> heat build up? I'm afraid the greatest shock absorbing Nike in the world
> would not help my running if it rubbed my heel...therin lies the
> problem. I got a pair of Sports Medicine boots in a trade. They were a
> tremendous help to my uncle's mare which had has some sort of surgery to
> clip her tendons when young and they had drawn up on her. Right now
> they're on loan to a 27 year old horse I used to own who bowed both front
> tendons. They really seem to be the difference in
>  him being able to live
> comfortably or having to be put down. I would not compete in them though.
> I have seen the legs of some horses who did compete in them rubbed
> totally raw. I have seen quite a bit of sand in them immediately after
> I'd done a short ride in them. It's a shame. With no sand to train in
> that's where I'd most like the support but they'd rub. :-(
>
> Angie
>
> Angie
>
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