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My horse, Blue, experienced these bumps when I used a Supracor and so did a friends horse. We thought that maybe they were sensitive to the plastic (I assume you are using the plain Supracor pad) I switched to the one with the cover on it and have not had a problem since. You could also try using a thin pad under it to keep the plastic away from his skin.
Nancy Sluys

At 10:08 AM 5/10/2004 -0700, you wrote:

I have been using a supracor pad for about 1 month.  Last weekend=
 I did about 24 miles, mostly walking from Foresthill to=
 Deadwood. Her back looked fine at the end.  Yesterday I did=
 between 25 and 30 miles in 7 hours (obviously not burning up the=
 trail.  Her sweat pattern was great when I untacked and her back=
 didn't seem sore.  However, later that evening she had small=
 hard nodules on her back.  Seemed like little muscle knots,=
 about an 1/8 inch wide.  I didn't notice them when I untacked=
 but I could have missed them.  They didn't seem particularly=
 tender and her back didn't seem sore.  She had them more on >  side than the other and I switch diagonals frequently.  This=
 morning they were almost gone on the side with fewer nodules but=
 still on the other side.  Again, her back didn't seem tender and=
 unless I really pressed the nodules they didn't seem tender.

Any thoughts? thanks

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