Ridecamp: Re: [RC] conformation/wering out shoes

> >From the recent Quiz:
> "b) legs not exactly straight and wore front shoes far faster
> then rear"
>
> I am curious about wearing shoes out: what does this tell
> you about how a horse moves?  My twh goes through shoes
> very quickly (I do a fair amount of road riding).  When
> I first got him, he went through one pair in four weeks of
> light riding - they were paper thin.  They were fairly evenly,
> so he moves fairly straight.  This is one of the reasons I try
> to keep him barefoot as much as possible.

The fast wearing of shoes seems to occur in horses that have some slide to
the way that they land.  The fronts bear more weight than the rears, so most
horses tend to wear fronts a bit more than rears anyway, but an abnormal
amount might indicate some compensations in the way the horse  moves.  I'd
worry more if the horse wore one side or one shoe more than the others.

Heidi


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