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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] [RC] Barefoot/Shoeing - terry banister

Agree. Acclimation and conditioning miles. No one advocates putting boots on for the first time at a race.

Even with the breakover concerns that people have voiced, horses have completed Tevis with Easy Boots over shoes. Imagine that breakover setup. But they are conditioned and acclimated beforehand I guess.

Terry

"May the Horse be with you"
>From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>CC: terrybanister@xxxxxxxxxxx,  kstandefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,  ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [RC]   [RC] [RC] Barefoot/Shoeing
>Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:21:11 -0500
>
>This gets back to not making major changes the day of a ride. If a
>horse is correctly shod or trimmed for the natural breakover point
>and you slap a boot on him/her the day of a ride - then you are
>making major changes without must acclimation time. You might get
>away with it a time or two but as a long term pratice it is probably
>flirting with disaster.
>
>The one ride I used easyboots was beacuse the rough sharp Utah rock
>was beating up our horses feet since the were soft, just coming for
>wet FL. We, however, spent two weeks riding the horses in boots -
>longer and faster each time to get them used to them. There would
>have been no way we would have gone out popped on boots and taken
>off on a 100 without an acclimation period.
>
>JMO, your mileage may vary.
>
>Truman
>
>heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>>Breakover has never been an issue with our hundreds of miles in
>>>boots.
>>>Never hear about people with shod horses discussing "setting the
>>>shoes
>>>back put the breakover where you need it to be." Isn't the
>>>breakover
>>>point controlled by the way the horse's hoof is trimmed and grows?
>>>Isn't
>>>the breakover allowed to be where it needs to be if the boots are
>>>removed after riding?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Yes, the breakover point should be able to be controlled by the
>>trimming,
>>and allowed to be where it needs to be.  This can be done either
>>for the
>>barefoot horse or the shod horse.  But in the barefoot horse, if
>>you trim
>>for the optimal breakover point when the feet are bare, then you
>>change
>>that breakover point when you put boots on.  If you were to trim so
>>that
>>the boots were at the optimal breakover point, then you would have
>>a
>>completely different breakover point when the boots come off and
>>the feet
>>are bare.
>>
>>This is a part of one of the problems of booting horses--whether
>>they are
>>barefoot or whether the boots go on over shoes--the boots represent
>>a
>>change that the horse does not have to deal with in his daily
>>living, and
>>as such, do cause the horse to have to move differently than he
>>does day
>>in and day out.
>>
>>Heidi
>>
>>
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>
>--
>
>?It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter
>how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong?
>Richard Feynman
>
>
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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] Barefoot/Shoeing, Truman Prevatt