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Good points, however, many of us (Horse and Rider)
would not be competing if it were not for shoe aids. Then we could just
stay home and breed, not too sound either.
My idea is do what you must and go have a good time
doing it.
Joan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:42
PM
Subject: Re: [RC] easy boots
In a message dated 8/6/2002 9:13:42 PM Pacific Standard
Time, haksaw@xxxxxxxxxx
writes:
I do. Most of my clients do if needed. Especially if the horse
was shod without
pads.
I *guess* (being that I
don't have actual experience with "racing") that some people who are doing
rides at racing speeds "need" the extra edge of easy boots or pads. However,
what happened to conditioning a horse from his feet up? Take the time to
toughen the horse's feet like we're supposed to and for the most part you
don't need all of this contrived stuff. A good horse can do the
miles (100s, multi-days, whatever) with a well shod set of steel shoes
(nevermind the barefoot fantatics -- let's not go there -- although, I'm going
no mail for 10 days so have at it <eg>).
I think Bob
Morris' basic concept of a good, sound horse doing lots of miles because
he's capable, well-conditioned and bred for the task deserves a moment of
silence here. Pretty soon our horses are gonna look like that dog in the
anti-flea commercial (the one with the wet suit and snorkel on).
Sylvia
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