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Hi Mary

I recommend you read about thoof care on the Pete Ramey website
www.hoofrehab.com

That where you can learn what a good and healthy natural hoof looks like.
I took a clinic with Pete and his wife and my hoof trimmer is a studend of 
Pete's ...and i am VERY happy with my horses feet. I will NEVER put them in 
shoes EVER. If need be i will use easy boots epic . I like them and they do 
well on my horses.
I had to put my main mare down ..right at the time when we where ready to do 
50 miles rides. So the last year and a half i have been trining my second 
horse an gelding , He is also trimed the natural way. and has great feed now 
after only 4 month of doing this trim.
My new mare will get her first trim this weekend. she needs a little work 
done to correct a few things. But in a few month her feet will also be as 
good as they can be.

For the side reins ...hm I am a secone level parelli student. I ride only in 
a parelli hackamore. My gelding was started as a reining horse and the best 
day in his live was when i took the bit out of his mouth. I was too afraid i 
could not hold him with out a bit. He was  a little hard headed and had his 
own opinions. But it took me only a few weeks to work with him and now i 
ride him only in a rope hackamore.
Do your ground work and he saddle time will be sooo much easier.

Blessings
Diana :-)


> From: Mary Krauss <lazykfarm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RC]   Training Leo....
> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:40:03 -0800
>
> My new 3.5 year-old gelding Leo and I are off to a great start, and I have 
> LOADS of questions and thoughts about bringing along my new partner.  
> Luckily he's completely untrained so I don't even have to think about 
> over-conditioning problems.  But here are a couple of wonderings:
>
> James the Wonder Farrier plans to bring up Leo's underrun heels over time 
> (they're medium, not terrible), and now I'm torturing myself over what's 
> happening to his joints in the meantime.  Is this silly?  Say it takes 6 
> months to straighten out his feet, will he have suffered permanent joint 
> stress?  His owner believes that "Arabians shouldn't have real short toes", 
> so pushed her farrier to leave 'em too long--again, not horribly so, but 
> enough that the heel sloped under.  Should we be being more aggressive by 
> using shoes, or is handling the problem with frequent trimmings on his bare 
> feet best?
>
> The second thing I'm mulling over is the use of surcingle and side reins.  
> As a future endurance horse, or for any horse really, should I be letting 
> him stretch freely with nothing or use the surcingle and side reins on 
> either the low or middle connector?  It's been a long time since I messed 
> with any of this.  My last horse was so mellow I just waited until he was 
> old enough and did most everything while he was loose in the round pen, 
> then from his back.  Leo's not currently suited to that approach.... (read: 
>  he'd send me flying 3 or 4 times a day for weeks.)  My other thought is 
> to use driving reins instead of side reins.  Anyone with experience out 
> there care to comment?
>
> Mary K. who today talked Leo into sticking his own nose into his own halter 
> while standing next to a bright blue umbrella.  He was soooo proud when he 
> finally touched the umbrella and discovered it didn't bite.  So he bit it.
>
>
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