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Lori asked:

> Come one [sic], is 35-50 miles a week, week after week, light riding?
For an endurance horse?  Yes.  Endurance horses do 35-50 miles in a
matter of hours, it doesn't take them a whole week to do it.

If a horse wears off a week's worth of growth in 35-50 miles, then if
you do it in 7 hours rather than in 7 days, they are going to wear off
more foot than they can grow in 7 hours time.  And they have to have the
foot there when they need it, it doesn't do any good to tell the horse,
"you will get some days off after so you can grow back the foot you need
now." :)

And rarely is it sufficient to let them start "long in the foot" because
the long part of "long in the foot" wears down even faster (or chips
off).  You can't put extra foot that they don't need right now in the
bank so that it can wear off later when they need it.

kat
Orange County, Calif.



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