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Re: [RC] [RC] Archive Use (boots, etc.) - heidi"Come ride with me and I will prove it. IMHO, saying you can run your horse over ANY terrain in 50 mile or greater Endurance rides barefoot is stupid. Ain't gonna happen..." It already is happening. Because riding barefoot does not mean "bare foot" anymore. It means hoof protection other than stuff nailed to the hoof. And new boots are coming onto the market that make it easier and more reliable than ever. No, Terry, "bare" means "bare." A booted foot is not bare. If you mean to tell me that you ride in Old Macs or EasyBoots, or whatever, then that's what you need to say. It is your perogative to not use steel shoes. But Jim is correct that there IS terrain that requires hoof protection, and I gather that you don't disagree with that. But there ARE people out there who are riding with NO hoof protection, and Jonni is right--we sure don't hear much about them when they fail. I sure wish a couple of the ride vets who have to deal with a lot of these horses at rides were on here--some of the failure stories they have to tell are chilling. Meanwhile, Jonni is right--maybe everybody with a sound, healthy-footed steel-shod horse ought to pipe up and crow about it. Except then I don't think I'd have room on my server to handle the mail volume. Again, it is your perogative to choose another form of hoof protection. But it gets pretty tiresome to hear over and over from a few folks about the evils of shoeing, when the thing that is evil is BAD shoeing. There is as much difference between bad shoeing and good shoeing as there is between surgery as practiced on the Civil War battlefield by minimally educated general practitioners vs in a modern up-to-date surgical center by board-certified specialists. Shoeing is still the easiest, safest, and most effective way to protect the feet of the majority of horses, when they are subjected to more wear than what their hoof growth can keep up with. And on REAL extremes of terrain, give me EasyBoots OVER shoes any day--beats heck out of pads... Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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