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One popular ride around here is to ride about 10 to 15 miles through the 
forest to a small town restaurant for breakfast. There is about a half 
mile walk from where you come out of the woods to the restaurant to down 
a paved road. The road is not busy - you seldom see a vehicle. On my old 
walking horse mare, I would usually just ride her down the road at a 
walk but sometime we would gait. One day I meet up with my endurance 
buddies on their Arabs and we head up. I just trot on out of the woods 
and down the road. They start yelling. I turn around and their horses 
are slipping and sliding around on the pavement. I stop, they get off 
and lead their horses down the side of the road. I stay on and walk on 
down.

When I rode the Jbird there the first time, he came on the pavement and 
it was like ice skating - so I got off pretty quickly.

I think a lot of how a horse handles slick footing is a function of the 
horse. The old mare had very quick feet, a quiet upper body was 
extremely sure footed in slick going. She was almost like a ballerina in 
tough footing, from pavement to mud uphill, downhill or on the flat. She 
always kept her balance and her center of gravity (even with a rider 
aboard) in balance. She had an amazing talent for doing that.

I've ridden a lot of horses in my few years on this earth and have never 
ridden one that was good at that as she was.

Truman

Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I think  it may depend on the type of shoe.  Wide web may slip differently
> than a narrower shoe, rim shoes may slip differently from the previous two.
> Small studs may also affect slipping (ok that may be the point of studs
> ,<grin>   ) Notice I didn't say which one slip more or less than the
> others, but i remember not slipping as much with a rim shoe as they seemed
> to provide more traction..  The way the horse moves may cause any of the
> shoes to slip differently as well as the surface  factors.  Just a thought.
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> The wind flew.  God told to wind to condense itself and out of the flurry
> came the horse.  But with the spark of spirit the horse flew by the wind
> itself.
>     - Marguerite Henry's King of the Wind
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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, Nobel Laureate in Physics


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