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This is a pretty nasty post, sent anonymously.  You can tell by the Ha-Ha at
the end.  Hmm.  I cannot imagine that a horse would last long in endurance
if "propped up" artificially.  And a true endurance rider would never do
harm to their horse - of that, I am certain.

I have yet to meet any competitive trail rider or endurance rider who would
deliberately hurt their horse or keep riding a lame horse.  I guess it
happens, but I'll bet it's rare!

Carla Richardson
Cortez, Colorado

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> having been involved in and managing endurance rides (not riding)
> for the last 10 yrs, i still cannot understand how a horse that has to be
> padded or wear easy boots can be considered a "sound" horse.  if the horse
> cannot be ridden in a standard horseshoe or  bare foot then he is not
sound
> enough for an endurance horse and should be retired to the trail.  Using
> pads, equitotics, plastic shoes, etc and then having to Bute the horse
later
> is closer to abuse than good horsemanship.
> I expect this little note to stir things up a bit.  HA-HA
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