Re: RC: Silver State 2001

["Lisa LeChatton" <llechatton@hotmail.com>]

Karen didn't identify the horse that looked lame and looks can be deceiving. 
What if that horse was a "weaver"? The horse would have looked like it was 
lame but it was just weaving in place. Its sad when people post such 
negative information and they don't know the whole story.

Some Arabs do fine barefoot on any terrain because the rider knows how to 
ride over rough terrain and/or the horse is conditioned. Some horses do not. 
Also, a crappy shoeing job is worse than no shoes.

Shoeing is an owner/rider decision specific to the horse. It would really 
suck if someone made it a rule to shoe in a certain manner because of an 
inflated opinion.

Get over it.

Lisa LeChatton
Garland, Tx



----Original Message Follows----
From: Dbeverly4@aol.com
To: karen@storallnv.com, ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC:   Silver State 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:58:04 EST

In a message dated 11/26/2001 4:36:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
karen@storallnv.com writes:


 >  The only
 > negative thing that day was the horse people were trying to ride
 > barefoot.  The horse was looked really lame out on the trail, it was so
 > sore that even my junior couldn't believe the rider didn't get off and 
walk
 > it back to camp.  I guess it **barely** passed the vet check with a grade 
2
 > lameness at the end.

<FLAME SUIT ON>Wasn't this the same horse who finished in reportedly "great"
shape after the Sunland ride (see initial forwarded post to Ridecamp)?  IF
this is the same horse, which has been reported on other lists (but not RC)
to have finished "sound" (I don't consider grade 2 lame sound) on THIS
particular ride, you've got to wonder.  The reason I ask is that what we ask
our horses to do is hard enough -- this barefoot trend just makes me crazy.

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