everyday easyboots

[Chelle Sherman <cms@fluent.com>]

Hello - is there anybody out there that lets their horse go barefoot and
uses easyboots regularly for training rides and competitions? If so,
what are the pros and cons? Can you get those boots on fast enough to
make tacking up time reasonable? Do you lose them frequently?

My mare has good, strong feet and can go barefoot all the time for ring
work and short training rides on good footing, but needs something more
for longer rides and competitions. She seems to have an annoying habit
of wrenching off at least one of her shoes about 3 weeks into the
shoeing cycle. This happens in the pasture most of the time, but also
happens during CTR competitions on a basis too regular to be a
coincidence. She decides to do some explosive sprints around the pasture
and bingo - one less shoe (usually a front shoe). I have worked with my
farrier to eliminate interference by shortening her front toes and
setting her shoes back on the hinds. It has eliminated the forging and
interference marks she would sometimes get on long rides, but she still
yanks the shoes from time to time. So I'm wondering if we'd all be
happier (and a bit richer perhaps) if she only wore her running sneakers
when she needed them. Any comments? Thanks in advance.

Chelle and Dy (equine crowbar)
Tunbridge, VT


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