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At 07:57 AM 3/14/2005, Laney Humphrey wrote:
> A question and a comment, Karen:
> 1. do you recommend grinding the toes for all horses or would it depend on 
> the particular horse's footfall pattern?
> 2. Good Boy Chief probably did so well barefoot because the hoof was 
> protected and he wasn't feeling the ground surface with all it's pebbles, etc.
> Laney

It probably depends on the horse.  I know that with regular easyboots, 
about 250 miles in rides in them gets the toe shaped just right, or else I 
could speed that up by using the grinder :).  The main thing is to keep the 
breakover going so the horse doesn't interfere or cause himself to trip or 
be clumsy.  We didn't encounter any of those problems at the ride this 
weekend.  Chief has had difficulty with using just two easyboots on the 
fronts.  If I put four on he does okay, but so far I think he has done the 
best with hoof boots in the Epics.  He also did well a couple of times I 
rode him in Boa Boots.  I think the Epics are more suited for endurance 
riding though.  We'll see how he looks in another week, make sure nothing 
surfaces that isn't showing up yet.  As of this morning though, you would 
never know he'd done a ride everything looks great!

Karen


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