Borium Shoes

[Steve Shaw <sshaw@pacbell.net>]

One year at the AERC Convention I won the Grand, Grand prize in the 
raffle. It was announced at the end of the awards banquet, sort of like 
the highlight of the raffle. It was an eight year old endurance gelding 
bred and raised by the Wrigley Ranch (as in gum) on Catalina Island! The 
owner in Santa Barbara had donated it to the AERC for a $15,000 
donation. 

When I picked up the horse I was handed an extra set of shoes to go with 
the beautiful horse? She said that these and the ones on the horse were 
very special and expensive and I should save them. They were borium 
studded. Finding out why was not a highlight of my horse ownership. The 
gift horse had no whoa genes and a penchance for running away, hence the 
borium for trying to stop or turn on pavements at fast speeds. 

Steve