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Ridecamp Guest wrote:

> Please Reply to: Char char.antuzzi@xxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> I was from the old school, use metal shoes and that rubber,
> plastic, pads, etc were frowned upon. If the horse couldn't get
> down the trail in regular good ole metal shoes, then that horse
> wasn't made for trail and or endurance riding.
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My farrier has experimented with both GC and equithotics. He does a 
large number of endurance horses. His conclusion on both is the same. 
They will probably work very well in semi-arid climates or even in 
temperate climates when it is dry but they just don't seem to work well 
in FL where our problem is too much moisture in the hoof. He came from 
CO so has a very good ideal as to what will work where and why.  For the 
most part our horse's feet are a little on the soft side and the 
equithotics and GC just don't give enought support and the feet will 
splay, nail holes crack, etc.

I tried equithotics and loved them till we took them off after the 
second time and noticed the feet were starting to splay. He said he 
noticed the same thing with GC and he had several people trying GC.

So like anything - it depends on a lot of factors.

Truman

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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm 
not sure about the former."  Albert Einstein





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