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I used Al shoes for several years in the FL sand with no lameness problems
- even did my first 100 at in the deep sand of the Far out Forest in Al
shoes. I used wide web thick Al shoes. I don't remember the brand but
they were heafty shoes but still lighter than steel. The other nice thing
about these shoes was the holes were not pre drilled so the farrier could
put the nail anywhere he wanted. I also ( at my farriers objection ) make
the farrier leave a generous amount of shoe behind the heal for support.
The problem I found with Al was the hoof would wear a grove in the shoe and
come and the shoe would become loose. I had to have the shoes reset every
four weeks because of this. This drove me to try other things.
I like bar shoes in FL, assuming the shoe is set back far enoght on the
foot. One big problem with bar shoes is they are very slick on some
surfaces like hard surfaces, beds of pine neddles, wet leaves, etc. This is
a particular problem on road surfaces - either lime rock or pavement. One
option on pavement is Equithotics - but they have some built in warts. Ah
the search for the perfect shoe. Currently we have Equithotics on Dan and
steel egg bars on Jordy.
Truman
Truman Prevatt
Mystic "The Horse form Hell" Storm with a lille hellion on the way
Danson "Deamon in Training" Flame
Sarasota, FL
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