Re: Shoes, blood flow, and endurance

["Maggie Mieske" <mmieske@netonecom.net>]

Tina,
You can use NBS principles without using the shoe.  I would never ride
endurance with those shoes...they are too flat and slippery.  I prefer St.
Croix Eventers and he uses his forge to square the toes and sets the shoe
back.  SCE shoes have a wide web and a nice rim for grab.  


Maggie Mieske
Mieske's Silver Lining
10601 S. Richards Rd.
McBain, Michigan 49657
http://www.netonecom.net/~mmieske
mmieske@netonecom.net

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> From: tina hicks <tina@liveonthenet.com>
> To: ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Subject: RC:  Shoes, blood flow, and endurance
> Date: Friday, June 30, 2000 12:36 PM
> 
> Since the subject of shoes and what do or don't do the foot has come up,
> I have a Q for all you - do any of you ride in endurance rides with
> barefoot horses or have you ever heard of it?
> 
> My new shoer is a real advocate of barefooted-ness if possible; if you
> can't do that then he says the Natural Balance Shoes are the next best
> thing and in fact one of my horse's feet has improved measurably in just
> one shoeing with the NB shoes.
> 
> Anyway, he apparently went to a seminar some years ago by a
> vet/endurance rider who advocates going barefoot. He remembers her
> mentioning that horses have done some major rides in past years like the
> Tevis barefoot (???)
> 
> Anyway, I don't have any aspirations of endurance riding with my horses
> barefoot but it is kind of intriguing to think maybe someone has or does
currently.
> 
> Tina
> tina@liveonthenet.com
> 
> 
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