ridecamp@endurance.net: World Racing Plates/Endurance Usage

World Racing Plates/Endurance Usage

Steve Hallmark (cowboytex@worldnet.att.net)
Tue, 18 Mar 1997 23:16:26 -0800

I can only share with you my limited experience with the four point shoeing
method and the World Racing Plates. Our farrier has been working with, and
assisting Gene at clinics and has incorporated Gene's techniques into his
shoeing repetoire.

Before you get too excited and run out and buy a set of world racing plates
for your equine friend, think twice. It'll cost you about the same price
as a set of new Goodyears for ole Bessie, the trailer haulin rig. Tracy,
I'd tend to agree about the aluminum shoe wearing to fast. Our farrier
heats a traditional steel shoe in the forge, then pounds it into the
general shape of a world racing plate. In one horse's case, he welds on a
bar across the back of the shoe for support of the front hooves.

Hope this helps, and thanks Tom for clear up your original post.

Steve

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